The feeding habits and effect of the diameter pelleted feeds on responses wild juvenile adult flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) in captivity were examined. Optimal pellet size for was defined according to behavioural ingestion pellets with different diameters (2, 4, 6, 8 mm) that dropped into tank a random sequence. Larger (6 more attractive (lower reaction time, high percentage capture), b...

European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus, Walbaum, 1792), Golden grey mullet (Liza aurata, Risso 1810), and Common sole (Solea solea, Quensel, 1806) are the commercially important fish species caught by trawl purse seine in Mersin Bay, Mediterranean. This study was aimed to investigate proximate compositions, carbohydrate levels, energy contents, fatty acid profiles, lipid quality indexes of pilch...

The flathead grey mullet ( Mugil cephalus ) is at the focus of an intense domestication effort. However, despite significant advances, aquaculture mullets still based on capture wild fingerlings in estuaries and stocking them into ponds. Such reliance seed limits production since it highly seasonal, unpredictable, hinders genetic improvement programs may negatively affect local fisheries. As ca...

Quality of fresh milt of grey mullet Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 was assessed based on motility grade, motility duration, sperm count and seminal plasma osmolality. Freshly collected milt from live males (n=17) were examined individually for motility assessment. Motility grade was four in fifteen samples whereas three in other two samples analysed. Other sperm quality parameters such as motil...

Anisakiasis is a parasitic infection caused by larval stages of nematodes of the genus Anisakis, Pseudoterranova and Contracaecum, of the Anisakidae family. The lifecycle of these nematodes develops in aquatic organisms and their final hosts are marine mammals. However, humans can act as accidental hosts and become infected with infective stage larvae (L3) by consuming raw or undercooked fish o...

Fishborne zoonotic metacercariae have not been reported from brackish water and marine fish from Vietnam waters although these parasites are common in the country's freshwater fish. Both wild-caught and cultured grouper (Epinephelus coioides and Epinephelus bleekeri), and mullet (Mugil cephalus) from brackish and marine waters located in Khanh Hoa province in central coastal Vietnam were examin...