-During their first year in captivity, summer flounder Parulicthys denratus were induced to spawn with gonadotropin releasing hormone analogue (GnRHa) implants, injected carp pituitary extract (CPE) or human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) injections. The percentage of fertile eggs was greatest (-69%) in CPEtreated females. CPE, but not GnRHa or hCG, was capable of stimulating oocyte growth (incre...

Iran contributes to the stock enhancement of several economically valuable fish species, including the Caspian salmon, S. trutta caspius, by producing and releasing millions of fingerlings into the sea. This work was conducted to determine the production costs of the Caspian salmon fingerlings in the years 2002 and 2003. For this purpose, a questionnaire was prepared and filled in by an expert ...

The increase of the growth performance and control disease can be done by use imunostimulan. Immunostimulant is a material that capable increasing non-specific immune response fish. purpose this study was to determine best concentration immunostimulants in self-formulated pellet feed on silver pompano fingerling. immunostimulant content used it sourced from commercial products Nutricell. There ...

Abstract This study was conducted to evaluate the efficiency of three bacterial isolates Lactobacillus acidophilus 4453, Bifidobacterium bifidum 5144, and Streptococcus thermophilus 5935 on thyroid hormones liver enzymes common carp fingerlings which had initial body weight attained (44±0.69) g. A total 72 fish were used randomly divided into 4 treatments with 3 replicates (6 per replicate). An...

Vaccination is an effective strategy used for the protection of food animals against infectious diseases. A 2010 U.S. Department of Agriculture questionnaire examined U.S. catfish industry use (in 2009) of two commercial vaccines that provide protection against enteric septicemia of catfish (ESC) and columnaris disease, catfish producers' opinions regarding the percentage of vaccinated fish the...