Environmental factors influence phenotypes directly, as well as indirectly via trait correlations and interactions with other environmental variables. Using nine populations of the African cyprinid Barbus neumayeri, we employed path analysis to examine direct, indirect and total effects of two environmental variables, water flow (WF) and dissolved oxygen (DO), on several morphological traits. W...

Pomphorhynchus laevis is a common fish parasite in Europe which   has been reported from Acipenser stellatus, Barbus capito, Barbus lacerta, Barbus mursa and Onchorhynchus mykiss in Iran. In a survey on the aquaculture potential of Gamasiab River in Hamedan Province, endemic fish parasites were investigated in summer and autumn 2008. After recording biometric characteristics, common necropsy an...

Barbus occidentalis is an important commercially exploited fish in Nigeria facing the threat of extinction. A two-year (January, 2002-December, 2003) sampling of the fish from Oyun reservoir revealed a declining population of the species with 25 and 13 species caught in 2002 and 2003 respectively. Various interacting factors between the fish, reservoir and watershed were adduced for the declini...

Freshwater and marine-spawned fishes were sampled from the Baakens River, a small urban river that runs through the city of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Using fyke nets, 8 sites were sampled along the river course over a 4-month period (January – April 2014). Catches were comprised of indigenous freshwater, marine migrant and alien fishes. Marine migrant fishes, including...

Till now for control of dracontiasis, the drinking water sources showing prolific breeding of c;/clops in endemic areas were either super' chlorinated or the biological method of control by introduction of cyclopscidal fishes like Ambassis, Etroplus, Barbus etc., was resorted to after the removal of the predatory fishes. Super-chlorination, if done regularly, gives fairly good results but socia...