The present study was aimed to investigate parasitic infection of an imported ornamental fish shubunkin, a variety of goldfish, Carassius auratus. The body weight and total length of fish ranged from 1.2-11.8 g and 3.311.6 cm respectively. Thirty fishes were examined, 19 fishes were found infected with one or more species of parasites. The prevalence was 63.33%. Five species of parasites belong...

Nematomorph parasites manipulate crickets to enter streams where the parasites reproduce. These manipulated crickets become a substantial food subsidy for stream fishes. We used a field experiment to investigate how this subsidy affects the stream community and ecosystem function. When crickets were available, predatory fish ate fewer benthic invertebrates. The resulting release of the benthic ...

Background The increasing demand for raw or undercooked fish products, supplied by both aquaculture and fisheries, raises concerns about the transmission risk to humans of zoonotic parasites. This has led current European Union (EU) Regulation No 1276/2011 amending Annex III (EC) 853/2004 mandating a freezing treatment such products. Zoonotic parasites, particularly anisakid larvae, have been w...

parasitic infection of pampus argenteus was examined from northwest of qeshm island. a total of 62 specimens were caught in summer 2008 and winter 2009 by bottom trawl and the specimens were selected randomly in different length classes and immediately deep frozen. all samples were transferred to laboratory, after measuring fish weight and length, parasitological survey implemented by stereo an...

The aquatic habitats of the Taquari-Antas river basin (in the Patos Lagoon basin, southern Brazil) are under marked environmental transformation because of river damming for hydropower production. In order to provide an information baseline on the fish fauna of the Taquari-Antas basin, we provide a comprehensive survey of fish species based on primary and secondary data. We found 5,299 valid re...

Anadromous salmonids vary considerably in their age at ocean entry, their timing of ocean entry within a year, and the extent to which they use multiple habitat types within freshwater. To better understand habitat use and movement timing, we developed a broadly applicable model of state-dependent movements among multiple habitats, which was parameterized based on a case study of steelhead Onco...

Empirical studies suggest that most exotic species have fewer parasite species in their introduced range relative to their native range. However, it is less clear how, ecologically, the loss of parasite species translates into a measurable advantage for invaders relative to native species in the new community. We compared parasitism at three levels (species richness, abundance and impact) for a...