We explored potential negative effects of exotic brown trout (Salmo trutta) on native sculpin (Cottus sp.) on the Logan River, Utah, USA by (i) examining factors most strongly correlated with sculpin abundance (e.g., abiotic conditions or piscivory?), (ii) contrasting the extent of brown trout predation on sculpin with that by native cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii utah) and (iii) estimat...

Exotic species present a great threat to native fish conservation; however, eradicating exotics is expensive and often impractical. Mechanical removal can be ineffective for eradication, but nonetheless may increase management effectiveness by identifying portions of a watershed that are strong sources of exotics. We used mechanical removal to understand processes driving exotic brown trout (Sa...

Studies were conducted to determine the pathogenicity for European eels Anguilla anguffla and rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss of several stra~ns of the species Aeromonas hydrophila, A. jandaei, A. sobria, A. caviae. Plesiomonas shigelloides. Vibrio anguillarum, Pseudomonas fluorescens and Shewanella putrefaciens isolated from an eel farm. Virulence of 20 isolates obtained during epizootics fr...

Heavy metal removal from the water was studied by using fish bones produced in trout farm of Atatürk University Faculty Fisheries. Fish used as adsorbent were obtained rainbow (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Trout bone its natural form. According to experimental results that maximum Pb (II) adsorption capacity 188.16 mg/g. The Langmuir, Freundlich, and Temkin isotherm models applied describe on bones. L...

This study was designed to compare the activities of sarcoplasmic (SR) Ca2+-ATPase and Ca2+ uptake in fish and mammalian hearts and to determine whether thermal acclimation has any effect on the function of the cardiac SR in fish. To this end, we measured thapsigargin-sensitive Ca2+-ATPase activity and thapsigargin-inhibitable Ca2+ uptake velocity in crude cardiac homogenates of newborn and adu...

objectives: the presence of e.coli in fish intended for human consumption may constitute a potential danger, not only in causing disease, but also because of the possible transfer of antibiotic resistance from aquatic bacteria to those infecting humans. the objective of this study was to develop an improved pcr method based on species – specific 16 s rrna gene primers (fes, res) for detection o...

We have completed this project and anticipate submitting in total of three manuscripts. Briefly, we developed several novel methods to further understand and characterize the induction and function of this gene in lake trout and other salmonids species. First, we developed the measurement of gill CYP1A using quantitative PCR with the sampling of non-lethal gill biopsies in both wild and culture...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the influence of chronic exposure to municipal sewage treatment effluent at environmentally relevant concentrations on immune parameters in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), including the assessment of potential differences in reactivity between sexually mature male and female fish. Trout were exposed to 1.5 and 15% (v/v) secondary treate...

In-situ caged rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) studies reveal significant fish toxicity and fish stress in a river impacted by headwater acid rock drainage (ARD). Stocked trout survival and aqueous water chemistry were monitored for 10 days at 3 study sites in the Snake River watershed, Colorado, U.S.A. Trout mortality was positively correlated with concentrations of metals calculated to be ...

A total of 678 fish from 26 different sites along 8 river systems was examined for the presence of trout viruses. No isolations of any viruses were made from any fish collected from these systems in Natal during this study. No antibodies against any of the trout viruses were detected in the serum collected from these fish. It would appear from this study that the river systems in Natal are free...