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... This study was conducted to confirm sporadic measurements made over the late 1970s to the early 1990s which determined that mercury (Hg) concentrations were low in anadromous char across Arctic and subarctic Canada including northern Québec and Labrador. Over 2004–2013, anadromous char populations across northern Canada were investigated at 20 sites for Hg concentrations and life history character ...
... Persistent organochlorine pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (p,p′-DDE), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are stable, bioaccumulative, and widely found in the environment, wildlife, and the human population. To explore the hypothesis that reproduction in male fish is associated with environmental exposures in the lower Columbia River (LC ...
... The present study determined the metal levels in aquaculture fish of tilapia and water and sediments in the southwestern Taiwan and estimated the human health risk assessment for consumption of tilapia. Bioconcentration factor (BCF) and biota-sediment accumulation factor (BSAF) were used to assess the metal accumulation ability of biotas, while metal pollution index (MPI) was assessed to compare t ...
DNA; DNA damage; antioxidants; biodiversity; biomarkers; clams; community structure; condition factor; correlation; dissolved oxygen; effluents; enzyme activity; fauna; fish culture; fish farms; glutathione peroxidase; glutathione transferase; glutathione-disulfide reductase; gonadosomatic index; health status; hypoxia; lipid peroxidation; marine fish; metabolic detoxification; organic matter; organic wastes; oxidative stress; pH; population structure; redox potential; reproduction; salinity; sediments; streams; temperature; tissues; Spain
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... The effects of solid organic wastes from a marine fish farm on sediments were tested using benthic community as ecological indicators and biomarkers in native clam (Scrobicularia plana) as biochemical indicators. The benthic fauna and clam samples were collected in the intertidal sediment in October 2010 from five sites of the Rio San Pedro (RSP) creek, following a gradient of contamination from t ...
Rutilus rutilus; body composition; carbon; condition factor; correlation; fish; foods; homeostasis; ingestion; lakes; models; nitrogen; nutrient content; nutrients; phosphorus; stoichiometry; water temperature
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... Stoichiometry theory states that the elemental composition of individual organisms is a taxon-dependent trait, and that organisms maintain relatively constant body nutrient composition, independent of food nutrient content or ingestion rate. Some recent studies have pointed out that assuming a strict homeostasis in fish is an over-simplification, so that nutrient ratios in fish bodies may not be a ...
... Introduction: The study examined the concentration of total mercury and correlation coefficients between fish size or FCF (condition factor) and the content of Hg in muscle tissue of six freshwater fish: bream (Abramis brama L.), roach (Rutilus rutilus L.), whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus L.), vendace (Coregonus albula L.), perch (Perca fluviatilis L.), and pike (Esox lucius L.). Material and Metho ...
surface area; watersheds; dissolved organic carbon; anthropogenic activities; fish; forests; risk; correlation; lakes; sulfates; conifers; geometry; statistical models; freshwater; bioaccumulation; condition factor; emissions; food webs; mercury; direct contact; landscapes; Salmonidae; stand basal area; United States
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... Remote high-elevation lakes represent unique environments for evaluating the bioaccumulation of atmospherically deposited mercury through freshwater food webs, as well as for evaluating the relative importance of mercury loading versus landscape influences on mercury bioaccumulation. The increase in mercury deposition to these systems over the past century, coupled with their limited exposure to d ...
... In this study correlations between body size and muscle fatty and amino acid content of two species of goby, round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) and monkey goby (Neogobius fluviatilis) caught from river Rhine (Germany) were investigated. Among saturated fatty acids (SFAs), mono- (MUFA) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) only SFAs were significantly higher in round goby than monkey goby (P < 0 ...
... In salmon plasma/serum, three major insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGFBPs) are consistently detected at 22-, 28- and 41-kDa. The 22-kDa form has been identified as IGFBP-1b and shown to increase under catabolic conditions. We developed a competitive time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay (TR-FIA) for salmon IGFBP-1b. Purified salmon IGFBP-1b was used for biotin-labeling, assay standard and ...
... The dominance hierarchies and the growth rate of the commercially important fish Diplodus sargus were assessed in this study. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that, if stable dominance orders were established, dominant fish would grow faster and show better condition factors than losers at the end of the experiment. Eight groups of six individuals were followed for 6 weeks and, for each grou ...
... An 8‐wk feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary n‐3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (n‐3 HUFA) on growth, body composition, and fatty acid profiles of juvenile Acanthopagrus schlegeli. Three replicate groups of fish (initial mean weight: 8.08 ± 0.09 g, mean ± SD) were fed diets with different levels of n‐3 HUFA (0.76%, HUFA₀ .₇₆; 0.83%, HUFA₀ .₈₃; 0.90%, HUFA₀ .₉₀; 0.97%, ...
... The correlation coefficients between fish size (body weight and total length) and metal contents (Na, K, Ca, Mg, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, Cr, Co, Cd and Pb) in whole fish (Aristichthys nobilis) were determined. A total of 71 fish samples were collected from hatcheries and fish reservoirs located in Islamabad and Fatehjung. Highly significant (P<0.001) relationship between metal concentrations and fish size ...
... The effect of dietary amylose/amylopectin (AM/AP) ratio on growth, feed utilization, digestive enzyme activities, plasma parameters, and postprandial blood glucose responses was evaluated in juvenile obscure puffer, Takifugu obscurus. Five isonitrogenous (430 g kg⁻¹crude protein) and isolipidic (90 g kg⁻¹crude lipid) diets containing an equal starch level (250 g kg⁻¹starch) with different AM/AP ra ...
... This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of protein levels on the growth performance, digestive capacity and amino acid metabolism of juvenile Jian carp. Brown fish meal was used as the sole protein source in the present study. Six isoenergetic experimental diets containing 14.4 MJ kg⁻¹ of digestible energy and 220-495 g crude protein kg⁻¹ diets were fed to triplicate groups of 50 fis ...
Myxocyprinus asiaticus; body composition; condition factor; correlation; dietary fat; dietary protein; energy; feed conversion; fish; freshwater; glass fibers; hepatosomatic index; juveniles; lipid content; liver; muscles; protein efficiency ratio; protein energy ratio; tanks; water content
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... A growth experiment was conducted to investigate effect of dietary protein to energy ratios on growth and body composition of juvenile Myxocyprinus asiaticus (initial mean weight: 10.04 ± 0.53 g, mean ± SD). Nine practical diets were formulated to contain three protein levels (340, 390 and 440 g kg⁻¹), each with three lipid levels (60, 100 and 140 g kg⁻¹), in order to produce a range of P/E ratios ...
... During the spring and fall of 2001 and the spring of 2002 a study was conducted to evaluate the health of the largescale stoneroller (Campostoma oligolepis) populations in streams along an urban land-use gradient. Sites were selected from a pool of naturally similar sub-basins (eco-region, basin size, and geology) of the Mobile River basin (MRB), using an index of urban intensity derived from infr ...
... This cross-sectional study examined various aspects of cubicle design and management in terms of their potential as risk factors for hock lesions, using an epidemiological approach. Cubicle dairy farms in Germany and Austria with Holstein Friesian or Simmental cows were visited during the winter housing season. 105 farms and 3691 cows were included in the analysis which consisted of three steps: b ...
... In this study, we analyzed the relationship between concentration of metals in the host-parasite system (cod - acanthocephalan Echinorhynchus gadi) and Fulton's condition factor (FCF) of the host. The relationship between metal (Ca, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Pb, Sr, Zn) concentrations in E. gadi and cod tissues was expressed as a bioconcentration factor (BCF), the ratio of the concentrati ...
Bothriocephalus acheilognathi; climatic zones; condition factor; correlation; fauna; fish farms; hatcheries; hosts; lakes; seasonal variation; summer; tapeworms; valleys; water temperature; wild fish; winter; India
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... Various studies have shown that the Asian fish tapeworm, Bothriocephalus acheilognathi causes great economic loss in hatcheries, fish farms as well as in lakes. In order to understand the seasonal variation of infection in a nutrient-enriched lake, parasitological investigation was carried out in the indigenous cyprinid fish, Schizothorax niger Heckel 1838 from September, 2008 to August, 2009. Ove ...
... The objectives of this study were to develop and validate biomarker techniques for aquatic environmental monitoring of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in Nigeria aquatic ecosystems, using the Eleyele Lake, which is a major source of domestic water supply to Ibadan and its surrounding towns, as a model aquatic environment and Tilapia guineensis, as a model organism. A total of 55 male and 28 ...