Off-flavour taint of aquaculture products is a global issue reducing consumer confidence in the farmed produce as they are taken up via the gills of fish, and deposited in the lipids of the animal. If the fish are not purged, resulting undesirable muddy earthy flavour taint can be tasted by consumers. These undesirable flavour and odour is caused by the terpenoid compounds namely geosmin and 2-...

White Snapper (Lates Calcarifer) has a fairly complete nutritional content, is favored by the community and high economic value. The success of white snapper cultivation determined availability feed during maintenance. This study aims to analyze use gold snails as substitute for pellet on growth survival snapper, feeding snails, pellets combination both. research took place from July November 2...

Fish monogeneans are lethal parasites in aquaculture. We provide the first experimental evidence that a notorious fish monogenean, Neobenedenia sp., can produce viable eggs in isolation for three consecutive generations. We infected individual, isolated, farmed barramundi, Lates calcarifer (Bloch) with a single oncomiracidium (larva) of the hermaphroditic monogenean Neobenedenia sp.. Isolated p...

Little is known about the threat of mercury (Hg) to consumers in food webs of Australia's wet-dry tropics. This is despite high concentrations in similar biomes elsewhere and a recent history of gold mining that could lead to a high degree of exposure for biota. We analysed Hg in water, sediments, invertebrates and fishes in rivers and estuaries of north Queensland, Australia to determine its a...

LAS (Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate) surfactants are the main cleaning agents from anionic group found in detergents that widely used Indonesia. decomposes surface water for 1-2 days, sediments it 1-3 marine and estuarine systems 5-10 days. is generally degraded by as much 90% within 3 months, with a time ranging 5-30 days (World Health Organization, 1996). can cause damage to gill epithelium bl...