Rapid industrialization along with advanced agricultural activities led to the contamination in aquatic environment with heavy metals. Heavy metals ultimately pass into human body through having aquatic animals like fish, prawn and crab. In this study, accumulation of heavy metals (zinc, copper, iron, cadmium and lead) in various organs of four commonly consumed fish (Euthynnus affinis...

This study was performed to compare the mortality associated with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) and carbapenem-sensitive A. baumannii (CSAB) infections, to identify potential risk factors for CRAB infections, and to investigate the effects of potential risk factors on mortality in CRAB and CSAB patients. This retrospective case-control study was conducted in a universi...

The speartooth shark Glyphis glyphis is a Critically Endangered whaler known from few tropical river systems in northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. There limited genetic exchange populations residing Australian rivers that are greater than 100 km apart. In Queensland, the species only found Wenlock Ducie River flow into Port Musgrave. Juveniles confined to upstream reaches of these with se...

This study aimed to determine the quality changes and shelf life of raw steam-cooked blue crab meat caught in DALKO Fisheries Cooperative processing plant Köyceğiz Dalyan region. Both fresh cooked crabs were taken from brought laboratory under cold chain conditions. After initial analyses (sensory, chemical, microbiological, nutrient content) made for crabs, remaining samples shrink packed. Pac...

The problem in the management of blue swimming crab (BSC) fisheries is a decrease stock that overlaps with an increase fishing activities. This study aimed to analyze ratio spawning potential (SPR), reproductive potential, and productivity BSCs taken from Spermonde Islands. Spawning was analyzed using SPR, while analysis used relative proportion data between female, berried female average fecun...

1 Ocean Canada Partnership, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2 Fisheries Economics Research Unit and Global Fisheries Cluster, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3 Sea Around Us and Global Fisheries Cluster, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Colum...

Fisheries sector plays a significant role in national food security, empowerment and foreign exchange earnings the economy of Bangladesh. At same time, Bangladesh is blessed with enormous water resources inland culture (8,21,923 ha), capture (38,90,282 ha) marine (1,18,81,300 having great potentials fisheries production. Inland culture, provides 56.76%, 28.19% 15.05% production, respectively. T...

1 S.M. Shivaprakash, 2 N. Shivashankar*, 3 N. Manjappa and 4 A.T. Ramachandra Naik 1 Fisheries Research and Information Centre (Inland) Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University Bhuthnal, Bijapur 2 Department of Animal Science and Fisheries, College of Agriculture, Bheemarayanagudi 585287, Karnataka 3 Fisheries Research and Information Centre (Marine) Karnataka Veterinary, ...

A manned submersible was used in a fjord in southeastern Alaska to study the distributional patterns of the red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) and the Tanner crab (Chionoecetes bairdi) in summer. The cove was divided into three zones: inner, middle, and outer. Six types of habitats, including sand-mud, rock, shell, debris, rock wall, and algae, were identified from video tapes. A relati...