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... Cryptocaryoniasis is a severe disease of marine cage culture fish, caused by the protozoan Cryptocaryon irritans. However, the sources of C. irritans infection in cage culture farms are still unclear. Previous studies confirmed many cases of biological fouling on the nets of the culture cages. Therefore, we speculate that fouling may be a key infection source of the cryptocaryoniosis outbreaks. Th ...
Etroplus suratensis; body weight; cage culture; cages; feed conversion; fish; food conversion; freshwater; nylon; phytoplankton; protein efficiency ratio; sediments; specific growth rate; water quality; weight gain; zooplankton; India
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... Cage culture of Etroplus suratensis (Pearlspot) was carried out in Krishnagiri reservoir, India, a highly productive reservoir to analyze the feasibility of growing this species in freshwater cages and to investigate the effect on selected environmental parameters. Fish of average weight 5.98 ± 0.52 g were stocked at 10 ind. m³ in High‐Density Poly‐Ethylene floating cages (3 × 3 × 2 m) made of nyl ...
... A ten-week feeding trail was conducted to determine the dietary vitamin A (VA) requirement of coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch (Walbaum, 1792) post-smolts by formulating seven experimental diets containing graded VA levels of 367, 1060, 1823, 3482, 6715, 9984 and 22,935 IU/kg, respectively. Each diet was fed to triplicate groups of fish with the initial mean body weight of 185.86 ± 1.14 g. Stocked ...
... The present study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of phytogenic extract on growth and health of tilapia. Three experimental diets were designed as the basal diet (Con) and phytogenic extract (Flourishing, F) supplemented diets at 0.5 and 1 g/kg inclusion (F-1 and F-2), which the phytogenic additive was extracted from Eucommia ulmoides, Astragalus membranaceus, Lonicera japonica and Codonops ...
... Biofouling is a major issue in aquaculture cages and nano materials based antifouling strategies became more prominent in recent years. Polyethylene aquaculture cage net surface which is modified with polyaniline and nano-copper oxide (CuO), reported to have biofouling resistance. Leaching of nano CuO from the net to the aquatic environment and its bioaccumulation in fish is the major concern agai ...
cage culture; cages; carbon; feces; fish; fish farms; lakes; marine pollution; nitrogen; organic matter; sediments; stable isotopes; wastes; China
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... Collected sediment samples from the cage fish farm were measured to determine carbon and nitrogen stable isotope compositions and to understand the influence of the aquaculture waste on the sediment. The average δ¹³C of the sediment organic matter was −27.2 ‰ and −26.5 ‰, and the average δ¹⁵N value was 5.6 ‰ and 6.2 ‰ in October 2017 and November 2018, respectively. A linear mixing model was used ...
... This study aimed to evaluate the effects of partial replacement of fish meal (FM) with yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor, TM) on the growth performance, food utilization and intestinal immune response of juvenile largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). Seven diets containing increasing levels of TM (FM substitution) were designed (approximately 0% (0%), 4% (11.1%), 8.1% (22.2%), 12.2% (33.3%), 16 ...
... Aquaculture is expanding globally and is an increasingly important component of world food security. However, climate change can impact aquaculture through a variety of mechanisms varying by location and aquaculture type with implications for future productivity. Understanding the risks that climate change poses on different culture systems in different locations is important to enable the design ...
... Wild capture can be stressful for fish. Stress has the potential to induce mortality in released unwanted catches or negative flesh quality consequences in retained ones. Such effects compromise sustainable natural resource management and industry profitability. Mitigating stress during capture is therefore desirable. Biological indicators of stress can objectively inform fishers as to the functio ...
... The objective of this research study was to estimate the withdrawal time (WT) for oxytetracycline (OTC), administered intraperitoneally to two species of salmonids, rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). This was done in salmonid farms during the fattening phase in seawater, under field conditions. Seven cages from different marine farms were included, each as an ex ...
... Nucleotides (NT), as a modern feed additive, are effective in many vital functions of cultured aquatic organisms. An experiment was performed to evaluate the effects of dietary nucleotides on the growth performance, carcass composition, liver enzymatic profile, liver, intestine, and spleen histology in European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (initial weight 29.56 ± 0.083 g/fish). Four isonitrogeno ...
... The present study investigated the effects of glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) supplementation on the growth performances and lipid metabolism of blunt snout bream juveniles. Fish (100 ± 0.36g) were randomly allocated into 12 cages (20 per cage) in four replicates. Three diets were formulated to contain three levels of GA (0, 0.3 and 3mg/kg) and were fed for 56 days. Compared with the control group, dieta ...
... A 47‐day feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effects of increasing dietary carbohydrates on the growth performance, nutrient metabolism, oxidative status and fillet texture of rice field eel (Monopterus albus). Three isonitrogenous (39%) and isoenergetic diets (17.7 kJ/g) were formulated with 16% (S16), 28% (S28) or 40% (S40) gelatinized starch. Each diet was randomly fed to triplicate ...
... Salmonid are farmed far offshore in a submersible cage in China, and air supplementation in the swim bladder is an important issue while the fish are confined in the submersed cage. The objective of this study is to test the effects of different types of air supplementation on the growth, energy budget, and fatty acid composition of the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, confined underwater. The ...
Diphyllobothrium; Lates calcarifer; Pseudoterranova; anemia; cages; caudal vein; endoparasites; erythrocyte count; fish; fish diseases; leukocyte count; leukocytes; mariculture; rectum; Indonesia
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... Hidayati D, Nurindra AR, Abdulgani N, Setiawan E, Maulidina N, Syahroni N, Mulyadi Y. 2021. Fish disease study of Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer) in a floating marine cage: Endoparasite and blood profile. Biodiversitas 22: 4505-4511. The Indonesian government has multiple targets and priority programs to increase aquaculture productivity in 2021. Hence, the development of mariculture commodities ...
... Fish quality traits are important criteria for consumers in the commercial market as well as growth. In this study, flesh composition and morphology traits, in comparison with growth traits, were selected to study their additive genetic variation at harvest size, and their genetic and phenotypic correlations between different environments (cage and estuary). Flesh composition was measured by NIR a ...
... Mud Crab fattening is a relatively new business idea in Kenya and is highly lucrative due to the reasonable prices offered at tourist hotels. This study was aimed at developing appropriate culture techniques for Mud Crabs to maximize harvestable biomass by the local communities and avoid recruitment overfishing. Growth and survival rates for mixed sex Mud Crabs was investigated for a period of 230 ...
... This experimental field study provides first insights into the impact of a widely spread non-native fish species, round goby Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas 1814), on the diversity of native epifaunal macroinvertebrate communities in the Baltic Sea. A cage experiment was conducted in a macrophyte habitat in the Åland islands located in the northern Baltic Sea. Round gobies (13.5 ± 0.8 cm) affected ...
... Aquaculture impacts on aquatic organic matter and ecosystem integrity are poorly understood, especially in tropical regions. Here, we investigated the impacts of Nile tilapia net cage farming on the elemental stoichiometry, fluorescence components, and stable isotopes of dissolved organic matter (DOM) of the large, tropical Furnas Reservoir (SE Brazil). Early-stage fish farming, i.e., relatively s ...
... Two main challenges when controlling alien American mink (Neovison vison) in Patagonia are to maximize campaign efficacy and cost-effectiveness and to avoid trapping native species. We designed and tested new variants of collapsible wire box traps, compared the efficacy of a food-based bait and a scent lure and compared catch rates in different seasons of the year. We used the data to model the ef ...
Luffa acutangula; Momordica charantia; arid lands; cages; ecology; farms; fish; fruit yield; income; rain; India
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... The efficiency of farm pond technology used for supplemental irrigations in dry land area can be improved by growing vegetables and fish in the farm ponds by 'Integrated Cage Floating Aqua-geoponic System' (IFCAS) at college farm, College of Agricultural Engineering, Madakasira during March-June, 2018. The main aim of the research was to determine the size of IFCAS structure for floatation on wate ...
... The aim of this study was to evaluate the probiotic potential of Bacillus strains with antibacterial activity against Vibrio spp. in vitro. 13 Bacillus strains were selected using Bacillus-selective agar. Among the strains elected in the preliminary screening for antagonistic effect, only the strain PJ_11 with better antibacterial ability was selected and used in further experiments. Based on the ...
... Kelps can be included in integrated multitrophic aquaculture (IMTA) where their growth and quality might benefit from the nutrient load released by other species like finfish and mussels transforming effluents from the cultured animals into valuable products. We studied how different nutrient concentrations affect growth, photosynthesis, chemical composition and pigment content of the kelp Sacchar ...
DNA barcoding; amphibians; biodiversity; cages; decline; environmental DNA; fish; lentic systems; surface water
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... To effectively monitor, manage and protect aquatic species and understand their interactions, knowledge of their spatiotemporal distribution is needed. In this study, we used a fine‐scale spatiotemporal water sampling design, followed by environmental DNA (eDNA) 12S metabarcoding, to investigate occupancy patterns of a natural community of fish and amphibian species in a lentic system. In the same ...
Antonio Vallecillos; Emilio María-Dolores; Javier Villa; Francisco Miguel Rueda; José Carrillo; Guillermo Ramis; Mohamed Soula; Juan Manuel Afonso; Eva Armero
Argyrosomus regius; animal morphology; aquaculture; body weight; cages; chemical composition; collagen; feed conversion; fillets; fish; growth performance; image analysis; phenotype
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... Meagre (Argyrosomus regius) plays an important role in the aquaculture system, with the potential for diversification of European aquaculture, and is characterized by its fast growth rate, low feed conversion ratio, and the high quality of the product. Focusing on the relevance of meagre, the aim of the study was to analyze growth performance, fish morphology, and flesh composition phenotypically ...
... The aim of the present study was to evaluate physical carrying capacity of a potential cage aquaculture site near a Cittaslow area in the northern part of the Mediterranean (Sigacik Bay, Turkey). Developing tools for timely management of marine aquaculture facilities are important to minimize harmful influences of fish farming. The physical carrying capacity was estimated by mathematical formulati ...
Lutjanus; Majidae; biofouling; biological control; blood proteins; body weight; cages; chemical treatment; epibionts; fish; health status; herbivores; mariculture; seafoods; spiders; Bahamas; Caribbean
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... Biofouling is a significant issue on marine aquaculture pens and is conservatively estimated to contribute to 15% of production costs. With a global increase in the demand for sustainable aquaculture products a search for sustainable non-toxic alternatives to chemical treatment and manual removal of biofouling organisms, such as biological control, are becoming more sought after. In the laboratory ...
... This study assessed the impact of tilapia farming on poverty in the States of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Chiapas, which have the highest levels of poverty in Mexico. The study uses both 2018 data from a sample of micro- and small-sized farmers in these States, and the Mexican government’s multidimensional poverty methodology. Results show fewer tilapia farmers in extreme or moderate poverty compared to ...
... Studies on the biology and ecology of sea lice are lacking in tropical regions such as in Southeast Asia where finfish cage farming has grown dramatically in the past decades. This study investigated the seasonal population dynamics of ectoparasites infecting captive snubnose pompano (Trachinotus blochii) breeders in marine cages in the Philippines. The pompano breeders were found to be naturally ...
... A wild-caught stock of greater amberjack Seriola dumerili reared in sea cages in two commercial aquaculture facilities in Greece was administered gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa), loaded in controlled release implants, and was used in spawning induction experiments throughout the reproductive season. Sperm quality was evaluated using computer-assisted sperm analysis (CASA) before and ...
Lates calcarifer; biodiversity; brackish water; cage culture; cages; cost benefit analysis; credit; economic sustainability; feed conversion; fish; fish production; fisheries; insurance; issues and policy; livelihood; India
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... Coastal brackishwater resources are highly fertile, rich in biodiversity and provide livelihood to traditional fisher families. However, due to natural disturbances and manmade interruptions, its fishery resources are depleted, hence, the livelihoods of dependent fishers are threatened. Aquaculture of fishes in customized cages and pens is a proficient approach for the efficient utilization of thi ...
animal proteins; aquatic ecosystems; cage culture; cages; carrying capacity; databases; feed prices; fish; fish production; food intake; food security; human population; infrastructure; models; production costs; profitability; socioeconomic factors; surface water; unemployment; water quality; youth
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... The global population is increasing and technical efforts have to be put in place to assure food security especially for the much needed animal protein for the growing human population. Several efforts are focused on fish production to cope with the demand. Research has been done in aquatic ecosystems by installing fish production infrastructures as well as floating cages. This review aims to exam ...
... To obtain the motion state of a school of fish in marine cage culture and improve the automatic detection capability for large areas of marine culture, this paper proposes a fish-motion vector-field extraction method for marine cage culture, which primarily comprises cage region extraction and motion vector calculation. The proposed method uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as the carrier, and ...
Gambusia affinis; biomass; cages; dry season; field experimentation; fish; indigenous species; invertebrates; limnology; periphyton; seasonal variation; vegetation types; water lilies; wet season; wetlands; China
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... The mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis: Poeciliidae) is one of the world's most widespread invaders, but our ability to predict the consequences for native species in the tropics is limited by a paucity of research and a lack of knowledge of how environmental factors influence mosquitofish impacts. We undertook a field experiment using cages to manipulate mosquitofish densities in a Hong Kong wetland ...
... The new advances in production methods have led to an increase in aquaculture production to the extent that the industry can now aid traditional fishing in meeting the growing global demand for fish within the context of the depletion of fisheries' resources. In this new context, market competition has increased and the complexity of managing industrial-scale production processes involving biologi ...
... The object of this work is to investigate the effects of emodin and curcumin on Pengze crucian carp. Fish was, respectively, fed Control diet and supplementation of 50 mg/kg emodin (EM group) and curcumin (CU group) with 4 repetitions each group (20 fish per cage). Our results indicated that the growth was unaffected by diets, whilst whole‐body lipid content was detected to remarkably decrease in ...
... Sediment oxygen demand (SOD) and benthic nutrient fluxes were measured at five sites using an in situ benthic chamber: fish farm (FF), oyster farm (OF), Tongyeong Marine Science Station (TMSS), and two controls (FF-C and OF-C) June 27–July 1, 2017, to assess the impact of aquaculture on coastal waters of southern Korea. The net oxygen production rate of the epiphyte community attached to farming f ...
... Using the Modelling‐Ongrowing fish farms‐Monitoring B investigation system (MOM‐B), we discussed the effects of deep sea cage (DSC) and traditional sea cage (TSC) fish mariculture on benthic environments in the Yellow Sea, China. Macrofauna, and chemical and sensory parameters were evaluated at 10 field stations surrounding a traditional sea cage farm in 2016–2017 and 10 field stations surrounding ...
aquaculture; cages; carbon; environmental impact; feces; fish; fish farms; fish feeds; lakes; nitrogen; organic matter; plankton; pollution; sediments; stable isotopes; toxicology; wastes; China
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... The carbon and nitrogen stable isotope compositions of the sediment organic matter, fish feed and fish feces were measured to assess the impact of the aquaculture waste from the cage fish farm in Poyang Lake. The results provide evidence of the non-negligible effect of aquaculture waste on the sediment organic matter. The δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N of sediments varied from − 27.62 to − 25.66‰ and 4.83 to 6.92‰ ...
... Cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) is the most common viral cardiac disease in Norwegian Atlantic salmon farming and typically affects large, market size fish. Only six months after seawater transfer, Atlantic salmon were diagnosed with CMS at a fish farm in the south‐western part of Norway. Due to the unexpected young age and the remarkable large amounts of virus‐specific RNA (Ct <10), the fish group ...
... Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) farming on Lake Kariba, Zambia has been practiced since early 2000s. In recent years, the industry has experienced disease outbreaks with clinical signs consistent with streptococcus-like infections. Affected fish were growers weighing approximately 200 g or above from farms designated A and B, reared in cages on the lake. The objective of this study was to identify ...
Gordon M. Burghardt; Adam M. Partin; Harry E. Pepper; Jordan M. Steele; Samuel M. Liske; Allyson E. Stokes; Ariel N. Lathan; Cary M. Springer; Matthew S. Jenkins
... Although self-recognition or self-awareness has been studied with the visually-based mirror test, passed by several species, primarily apes, the possibility of a chemically-based analogue is controversial. Prior studies suggested that chemical self-recognition may occur in some squamate reptiles. To evaluate this possibility, we studied 24 individually housed gartersnakes, Thamnophis sirtalis, rai ...
aquaculture; cages; consumer preferences; family size; firmness; fish; freshness; market prices; models; probability; regression analysis; stakeholders; technology; willingness to pay
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... This study investigated the effects of the attributes of capture and culture fishes on consumer preferences, willingness to pay and market price. A total of 138 consumers for capture and culture fishes were selected under this study. Likert scale was employed to understand the consumer perceptions about culture and capture fishes. The logistic regression model was employed to estimate the factors ...
... The hyporheic zone is an important habitat for benthic invertebrates and early‐developmental stages of gravel spawning fish. However, the eutrophication of running waters and, in turn, the excessive periphyton biomass leads to its biological clogging. The result of these processes is oxygen depletion and a reduction in the habitat quality of the hyporheic zone. This study assessed whether top‐down ...
Seriola dumerili; aquaculture; cages; catalase; dietary protein; fish; fish meal; heat stress; intestines; juveniles; liver; lysine; protein efficiency ratio; regression analysis; satiety; specific growth rate; weight gain
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... An 8‐week feeding trial was conducted to determine the dietary lysine requirement of greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili. Six experimental diets resulting from a practical basal formulation were produced to containing mainly plant ingredients (25% fish meal) were supplied with graded levels of crystalline L‐lysine‐HCl and the analysed lysine concentration in each diet was found to be 1.93 (basal d ...
Cyprinus carpio; binding proteins; cages; crude protein; dietary protein; enzymes; feed conversion; fish; gills; glycoproteins; intestines; muscles; protein efficiency ratio; protein requirement; rapamycin; rearing; somatotropin; specific growth rate; weight gain
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... Dietary protein requirements of large‐size Songpu mirror carp (Cyprinus carpio Songpu) were investigated through an an 82‐day feeding trial. Six practical diets were formulated to contain increasing crude protein levels of 240, 260, 280, 300, 320 and 340 g/kg. Six triplicate groups of fish (25 individuals per replicate with initial mean weights of 246.00 ± 17.36 g) were reared in the floating net ...
... In the present study, we aimed to assess the effect of dietary black soldier fly oil (BSFO) enriched with n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA) on growth performance, lipid metabolism, inflammation and related gene expression in juvenile mirror carp (Cyprinus carpio var. Specularis). Triplicate cages of juvenile mirror carp were fed one of five isonitrogenous and isolipidic diets for 8 weeks. ...
Nibea albiflora; Vibrio; acid phosphatase; alkaline phosphatase; antioxidant enzymes; blood; body length; cage culture; cages; enzyme activity; fish; fish culture; fish health; growth performance; immunity; intestinal microorganisms; juveniles; osmoregulation; ponds; probiotics; rearing; salinity; salt tolerance; sodium-potassium-exchanging ATPase; China
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... The yellow drum (Nibea albiflora) is a coastal fish species that is intensively farmed in China. The aquaculture of this species is mainly restricted to coastal ponds and net cages in areas that may experience a wide variation in salinity due to rainfall or freshwater input. However, our knowledge regarding the impacts of salinity on the growth and health of yellow drum is limited. In this study, ...
Cyprinus carpio; Schizochytrium; antioxidants; aquaculture; blood serum; body weight; byproducts; cages; crude protein; docosahexaenoic acid; fatty acid composition; fish; growth performance; health status; hepatopancreas; hypercholesterolemia; juveniles; muscles; research; specific growth rate; superoxide dismutase; tail; thrombosis; weight gain
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... Defatted Schizochytrium sp. (DS) is a by‐product of algae oil, which is rich in docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). In this study, five DS‐supplemented diets, including 0 (DS0), 30 (DS3), 60 (DS6), 90 (DS9) and 120 (DS12) g/kg, were used to evaluate the effects of dietary DS on juvenile mirror carp (Cyprinus carpio var. specularis). A total of 270 fish juvenile mirror carp (8.55 g/tail, eighteen fish per ...
Rachycentron canadum; aquaculture; breeding stock; cages; case studies; death; females; fish; incidence; males; oocytes; spermatids; spermatocytes; testes; tissues; India
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... The present study reports the first incidence of intersex in Cobia, Rachycentron canadum maintained at sea cages in the Gulf of Mannar, India. During the 10 year study period (2010–2019), at total of 815 broodstock (386 wild captured and 429 captive raised) were maintained under captivity in sea cages in the Gulf of Mannar, India for the purpose of seed production. Of which, 318 male and 252 femal ...