1. The effects of diet composition and insulin treatment on blood glucose level, blood amino acid concentrations, the activities of two hepatic gluconeogenic enzymes (fructose diphosphatase, EC 3.1 .3.11; phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, EC 4 .1 . 1 .32) and of two hepatic glycolytic enzymes (hexokinase, EC 2 .7 .1 . 1 ; pyruvate kinase, EC 2 . 7 . 1 .40) were examined in rainbow trout (Sulmo...

--In the southern Appalachian Mountains, native brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis and introduced rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss and brown trout Salmo trutta are at the southern extremes of their distributions, an often overlooked kind of marginal habitat. At a regional scale composed of the states of Virginia and North Carolina, species were found to be distributed along latitudinal and elev...

Portable antennas have become an increasingly common technique for tracking fish marked with passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags. We used logistic regression to evaluate how species, fish length, and physical habitat characteristics influence portable antenna detection efficiency in stream-dwelling brown trout (Salmo trutta), bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus), and redband trout (Oncorhy...

We report here the first description in North Portugal of epizootic episodes of lactococcosis causing important mortalities in cultured rainbow trout associated with high water temperatures. The outbreaks that occurred during the warm seasons of 2002 and 2003 affected all size fish, reaching up to 90% mortality in some farms. The taxonomic studies of the isolates obtained indicated that they be...

background: thyroxine hormone appears to play some role at early stages of development and survival of fish larvae. objectives: the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of levothyroxine sodium on hatching and survival rate at early developmental stage of rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) larvae. methods: this study was carried out in dalkhan propagation and cultivation f...

BACKGROUND: The immunostimulating effect of Aloe vera in mammals has been documented, but few works were done on effect of A. vera on fish health and immune responses. OBJECTIVES: In this study the effect of oral administration of A. vera on growth indices, hematological parameters and immune responses of rainbow trout were investigated. METHODS: One thousand five hundred rainbow trout fingerli...

The aim of this study was to assess the potential impact of Trout farm effluents on water quality of Zaringol stream based on NSFWQI and WQI indexes. Some physicochemical water quality parameters were measured from 14 point during December 2009 to September 2010 seasonality. The average value of NSFWQI is 53.21 and it shows spatial and temporal variation. The maximum value or best water quality...

—Water temperature appears to play a key role in determining population persistence of westslope cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi, but specific thermal performance and survival criteria have not been defined. We used the acclimated chronic exposure laboratory method to determine upper thermal tolerances and growth optima of westslope cutthroat trout and rainbow trout O. mykiss, a pot...