Current global fisheries production of approximately 160 million tons is rising as a result of increases in aquaculture production. A number of climate-related threats to both capture fisheries and aquaculture are identified, but we have low confidence in predictions of future fisheries production because of uncertainty over future global aquatic net primary production and the transfer of this ...

It has been accepted that puffer fish accumulates tetrodotoxin through the food chain. This indicates that tetrodotoxin in puffer fish is exogenous. The present study, however, describes an endogenous origin of tetrodotoxin in puffer fish. For this purpose, the ovulated oocytes from puffer fish Fugu niphobles were artificially fertilized and cultivated. The toxin levels of embryos increased gra...

Numerous attempts have been made to estimate the production in the sea of fish and other organisms of existing or potential food value to man (1-4). These exercises, for the most part, are based on estimates of primary (photosynthetic) organic production rates in the ocean (5) and various assumed trophic-dynamic relationships between the photosynthetic producers and the organisms of interest to...

For several years, there has been continuing interest in identifying and developing ingredients as alternatives to fish meal for use within aquafeeds (Hardy, 1995; Tacon et al., 1998). Originally, the impetus for this was the often-variable nature of the price and supply of fish meal of suitably high quality for the aquafeed industry. Recently, however, the concern raised about the negative imp...

In the Mekong delta, inland fishing and rice production provided a major source of income for rural communities. Since early settlement, the inhabitants have caught fish. Still, fish provides the main source of animal protein in their daily diet (Madan et al. 2005). Fish are caught in flood plains and in rice fields. The wild fish catch has declined since 1970 (Gagauan & Arce 1992), as a result...

Introduction One of the major expenses in any fish culture operation is the cost of feeds for the fish, and the profitability of many operations is frequently tied to the cost of feed. Hatchery production of fish larvae most often requires the expensive production of live food (phytoplankton and zooplankton), because artificial diets are either not available, or are grossly inadequate. Artifici...

Modeling fish growth to predict fish production is important for planning of aquaculture development. Since growth strongly depends on feed intake, a growth model should be able to predict maximum feed intake of the fish under ad libitum feeding. However, the equations for maximum feed intake in the existing fish growth models are still descriptive and do not reflect the underlying mechanisms r...