During routine monitoring of commercial purse seine catches in 2011, 87 fingerling specimens of scombrids were collected in the southern Adriatic Sea. Sequencing of the mitochondrial DNA control region locus inferred that specimens belonged to the Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) (N = 29), bullet tuna, Auxis rochei (Risso, 1810) (N = 30) and little tunny, Euthynnus allett...

A study was conducted to determine the role of specific antibodies in immunity to Streptococcus agalactiae. Adult Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) were injected i.p. with tryptic soy broth as control or with S. agalactiae vaccine. Ninety days later, fish were challenged with 1.5x10(4)CFUS. agalactiae fish(-1). Blood was drawn from all fish 90d after vaccination and 25d after challenge, and ...

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A total of 360 juvenile Anabas testudineus mean weight (2.88 ± 0.02 g/fish) were randomly distributed in triplicate 20 fish per tank. Acacia mangium leave meal (AM) and yeast-fermented (FAM) used at 0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10 % supplemental the experimental diets. They fed for 12 weeks to A. fingerling stocked 18 plastic tanks (200 liters) set up recirculation system. Results indicated that final body ...

Bolbophorus damnificus is a digenetic trematode causing significant economic losses within the United States commercial catfish industry. The indirect life cycle complex, requiring piscivorous birds, aquatic snails, and fish to complete. With federal protections on many birds no FDA-approved therapeutic treatment for infections in fish, management industry primarily limited controlling snail ho...

PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) were used to explore the relationship between eukaryotic plankton community succession and environmental factors in two aquaculture pond models with gibel carp Carassius auratus gibelio. The main culture species of pond 1 were gibel carp and grass carp, and the combined density was 46224 fingerling/ha...