Health

In a study by Rachel Cristina Prehl Alves et al, Universidade de So Paulo, the authors evaluated the stunning effectiveness of thermonarcosis, carbon dioxide narcosis and electronarcosis by assessing the electrical brain activity of tilapia. Although results v…

Problems with lice and losses can be heavily reduced by placing farmed fish in closed systems until the fish reach a weight of one kilo. This has been shown by research conducted by scientists at Uni Research in Bergen, Norway.

Scientists are keen to sort farmed salmon and provide them with exercise right from the early stages of their growth, in order to equip them to deal with the stress of transfer to the sea.

A 50-day feeding trial was conducted to determine the effects of dietary bamboo charcoal (BC) on ammonia (NH3-N) excretion and growth performances of Pangasius hypophthalmus, write M Sadiqul Islam et al, Bangladesh Agricultural University.

A type of clay used in cosmetics, medicine, and papermaking may be just what aquaculture farmers need to fight columnarisa costly and deadly bacterial disease that affects freshwater finfish worldwide, writes Sandra Avant, USDA, ARS.

In this study, Andy Shinn et al, Fish Vet Group, Thailand, examine the worlds major marine and brackish water aquaculture production industries and provide estimates of the potential economic costs attributable to a range of key parasite pathogens using 498 sp…

Effective bath immunization systems may be very helpful to the salmon industry, particularly during the freshwater growth stages in which vaccination through injection is not possible, write Dr Juan Battaglia Aljaro, Velsquez S. and Ilardi P., Veterqumica S.A.…

Nitrite is toxic to fishes and is often encountered in recirculation aquaculture systems. Accordingly, the nitrite tolerance of potential aquaculture candidates needs to be assessed before the fish can be farmed in land-based recirculation systems. In the pres…

This is the second of a series of three articles that focuses on biosecurity in aquaculture. The aim is to provide baseline information for the aquaculture community. In the first article, we focused on biosecurity at the international level. In this article, …