A combination of global changes such as species invasions, climate change and nutrient pollution have altered ecosystems, food webs the bioenergetic processes that control growth. These are especially pronounced in freshwater ecosystems often lead to rapid variation fish growth dependent services fishery yield. Understanding mechanisms driving responses environmental is important for interpreti...

—We studied movements by fishes in Chamberlain Creek, Montana, from 24 July to 16 August 2001. We operated six weirs with two-way traps and one additional upstream trap, separated by 14–1,596 m, to quantify the timing, direction, and distance of movements and to estimate fish populations in the study reaches. We trapped and marked 567 fish of seven species, including 368 westslope cutthroat tro...

Freshwater fish populations often exist in systems characterized by novel ecological processes resulting from human alteration. Salmonid embedded within coldwater sections of warmwater rivers are spatially constrained habitat availability. Tailwater contend with fluctuating river discharges and density-dependent associated stocking exploitation. sustained through versus natural reproduction may...

Species invasions can lead to ecological regime shifts by altering food web structure and changing nutrient cycling. Stable isotopes are a powerful tool understand the potential realized impacts of invasive species on webs, especially when used in tandem with other dietary tracers. An invasion one most notorious freshwater invaders North America, quagga mussel ( Dreissena bugensis ), is imminen...

—Market-sized 2-year-old striped bass Morone saxatilis (average weight, 645 g) were evaluated in three different concentrations of Aqui-S at one of three different temperatures. Time to stage 4 of anesthesia, recovery time, and plasma cortisol level as an indicator of acute stress response, were determined. We found a significant difference in the time to stage 4 between 25 mg/L and 35 or 45 mg...

Flavobacterium psychrophilum is the aetiological agent of bacterial coldwater disease (CWD), and this pathogen has large economic impacts on salmonid aquaculture worldwide. Previously, it was demonstrated that high levels of protection against F. psychrophilum challenge were conferred to rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), by immunization with distinct molecular mass fractions of the ...

conventional cytogenetic is the standard technique for detection of philadelphia (ph) chromosome in chronic myeloid leukemia (cml). evaluation of abelson murine leukemia/breakpoint cluster region (abl/bcr) fusion using dual-colour fluorescence in situ hybridization (d-fish) is an alternative approach allowing rapid and reliable detection of the disease. we employed the technique of interphase d...

The results of numerous studies indicate that fish possess bacterial populations on or in their skin, gills, digestive tract, and light-emitting organs. In addition, the internal organs (kidney, liver, and spleen) of healthy fish may contain bacteria, but there is debate about whether or not muscle is actually sterile. Using traditional culture-dependent techniques, the numbers and taxonomic co...