A feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary nucleotide (NT) on growth performance and stress resistance of fry kutum. A basal diet supplemented with 0 (control), 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 g NT kg-1 to formulate ...

Broodstock maturation diets are an important component of shrimp hatchery management, since the nutritional status of spawners can impact on gonadal maturation, egg fecundity, embryo hatchability and overall larval quality. ...

Persian sturgeon (Acipenser persicus) is one of the most valuable species of fish native to the Caspian Sea and Iran's waters. Reproductive traits and their heritability have been evaluated in Persian sturgeon, Acipenser ...

The aim of this research was to evaluate the changes of some biochemical parameters in response to environmental variation in two important species of fish of great commercial value reared in Sicily. The study, carried out ...

A feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary crude protein and energy levels on the live weight (LW), daily weight gain (DWG), feed conversion rate (FCR), feed efficiency (FE), protein efficiency rate ...

The aim of this work was to evaluate the influence of various lengths of starving periods on weight changes of different body parts and on chemical composition of the pike perch fillets. Forty cultured, market size (average ...

Beluga sturgeon (Huso huso), the largest freshwater fish, has attracted the attention of sturgeon culturists worldwide. The profitability of aquaculture beluga production mainly depends on physiologically suitable ...

The survival and larval growth of marine fish in mass production are affected by the nutritional value of live feeds such as rotifers, thus many studies have been conducted to develop effective methods for the enrichment ...

The potential application of settling ponds and two fouling filter-feeder species Amphibalanus amphitrite and Saccostrea cucullata to bioremediate semi-intensive shrimp farm effluent through 6 hours ...

In this study, the impact of cage culture of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum), on benthic communities using biological indicators located along the coastal areas of the South Caspian Sea (Nashtarudregion, ...

The economic growing of aquaculture and dependence of a large amount of growing population to coastal resource has led to coastal degradation and reduced resources. In this paper while realizing the potential capacities ...

The growth of the gastrointestinal tract of the larvae and juvenile of Alburnus chalcoides was studied after histological analysis using light microscopy, haematoxylin-eosin staining and the mouth development was ...

Procambarus clarkii crayfish has been developed as an excellent animal model to study the characteristics and pathogenesis of white spot syndrome virus and the host defense mechanisms of crustacean. However, due to the ...

The purpose of this study was to use the Treflan (a herbicide) to reduce fungi and increase the hatching rate of eggs of ship sturgeon, in Youchtchenko incubator. A brood ship sturgeon with the weight of 10 kg, produced ...

The efficacy of neem against Lernaea cyprinacea was studied. Two types of neem seed powder, viz; (1) dried and powdered neem seeds and (2) solvent extracted neem seed powder prepared by treating dried seed powder with   ...

In this study, the antibacterial and antioxidant properties of C-phycocyanin (C-PC) from Spirulina platensis were evaluated. The extraction and purification of C-PC were carried out using lyzosyme and ammonium ...

The mangrove forest ecosystem is known to possess a variety of ecosystem services, including high rates of carbon sequestration, storage and mitigating climate change through reduced deforestation. This study was carried ...

Gender and sexual maturity stages of great sturgeon (Huso huso) were studied using blood plasma sex steroids hormones ratios (17β-estradiol (E2), testosterone (T) and 11-ketotestostrone (11KT)}. One hundred sixty reared ...

Over the last thirty years, the poor state of certain fish stocks in the Large Marine Ecosystem of the Canary Current gradually revealed the limits of the West African fisheries management. The Ecosystem Approach advocated ...

This research investigated the feasibility of using three strains Lactobacillus sp. viz. AM11, AM13, and AM14 previously isolated from dairy products to be used as probiotics in fish diet for phytase production. ...