Fish Husbandry Practices and Water Quality in Central Kenya: Potential Risk Factors for Fish Mortality and Infectious Diseases

Table 1

Odds ratio for fish mortality against some farm practices.


Risk factor	χ²(df = 1)		Cramer’s V	Odds ratio

Use of livestock manure for pond fertilization	0.227^a	0.634	0.064	1.500
Overstocked fishponds	0.094^a	0.759	0.034	1.168
Feeding fish on homemade ration (livestock feeds and weeds)	0.045^a	0.832	0.024	1.128
Sharing fishing nets and other equipment with other farmers	0.026^a	0.873	0.017	1.088
Occurrence of floods	0.001^a	0.978	0.003	1.018

^aInsignificant associations (χ ²(df = 1), ).