Water quality deterioration is the primary factor that induces the outbreak of aquatic disease and

even large quantities of death. The quality of cultured water is affected by many factors, and
mechanisms of action between the parameters are complex, all of this lead to the fact that
accurate prediction has been a tough problem that needs to be solved (Hu et al., 2015a). The
boom of Artificial intelligence and information technology has promoted the sustainable
development of modern aquaculture. If dissolved oxygen is less than 3 mg/L, it will have a poor
influence on the feeding, digestion and health of fish (Li et al., 2017). Therefore, it is vital to
control the dissolved oxygen for aquaculture and establishing an accurate, practical prediction
model has very important economic value and practical significance, which can reach the
standard of scientific breeding in aquaculture.

In recent years, many scholars have done a lot of work in the prediction of dissolved oxygen
content and made great achievements. The main forecasting methods include expert evaluation
system, mathematical statistics method, time series, grey theory method, neural network method
and support vector regression machine. Liu et al. (2012, 2013, 2014) studied the three
optimization methods of least squares support vector machine are improved particle swarm
algorithm, Cauchy particle swarm algorithm and ant colony algorithm, and its effect is shown in
the dissolved oxygen prediction. Ahmed (2014, 2015) proposed ANN to estimate the DO and
applied the adaptive neurofuzzy inference system to predict the DO of the Surma River. Huan et
al. (2016, 2018) designed an approach using K-means clustering and ELM neural network to
predict DO and studied the prediction of DO based on ensemble empirical mode
decomposition(EEMD) and least squares support vector regression(LSSVM) optimized by the
Bayesian evidence framework. The study of Li et al. (2018) proposed the dissolved oxygen
prediction model of extreme learning machine (ELM) intelligent algorithm, which was based on
the method of improving dissolved oxygen distribution by artificial push flow. Zhu et al. (2016)
proposed that least square support vector machine with chaotic mutation to improve the
estimation of distribution algorithm(CMEDA)was used to predict the dissolved oxygen. Csábrági
et al. (2017) make a forecast of this parameter in Central Europe’s most important river with the
use of other, easily measurable water quality parameters (pH, temperature, electrical conductivity
and runoff).