Published in Transgenic research
Aquaculture is becoming the primary source of seafood for human diets, and farmed fish aquaculture is one of its fastest growing sectors. The industry currently faces several challenges including infectious and parasitic diseases, reduced viability, fertility reduction, slow growth, escapee fish and environmental pollution. The commercialization of...
Published in Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins
Tilapia production has significantly increased over the past few years due to the adoption of semi-intensive and intensive aquaculture technologies. However, these farming systems have subjected the fish to stressful conditions that suppress their immunity, hence exposing them to various pathogens. The application of antibiotics and therapeutics to...
Published in Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins
Macrobrachium rosenbergii is an economically important source of crustacean seafood worldwide. Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an important aquatic pathogen that causes epidemics of acute hepatopancreatic necrosis in shrimp populations, which results in significant economic losses to aquaculture farmers. To prevent the antibiotics abuse, which has becom...
Published in Veterinary parasitology
Trichodinids are problematic ectoparasites for intensive arapaima fish farming, which can make their breeding costly and unprofitable. The search for effective and safe therapeutic molecules is constant, and chloramine-T has stood out as an effective biocide to treat various pathogens in aquaculture. Here we investigated the acute toxicity (LC50-4h...
Feed conversion ratio (FCR) is an important trait to target in breeding programs in order to improve fish farming sustainability and increase environmental efficiency. Due to the complexity of accurately measuring the individual feed consumption of fish, developing a selective breeding programme to improve FCR is a challenge. Using video-recordings...
Published in Food Security
Until the Covid-19 pandemic, Bangladesh had reported consistent improvements regarding its food and nutrition security (FNS) status, and yet, the country still features poor FNS outcomes among parts of its population. In rural coastal regions of the Ganges–Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, farming households’ vulnerability is particularly exacerbated by a ...
Published in Biologia
Edwardsiella tarda is one of the serious threats affecting the worldwide aquaculture. In the present study, four isolates were recovered from diseased goldfish, showing hemorrhages, reported with 60% mass mortality in an ornamental fish farm, Ernakulam, Kerala. Based on the phenotypic and genotypic analysis, the bacteria were identified as Edwardsi...
Published in Research in veterinary science
Probiotics are increasingly used in aquaculture to protect cultivated organisms from pathogens and improve water quality and feed efficiency. Shrimp are the most commonly cultivated aquaculture species worldwide. In this current review, we will explore the current challenges that impact shrimp aquaculture and summarize how probiotics are utilized t...
Published in Aquaculture (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Anemia outbreaks identified in 1–13% of Scottish Atlantic salmon farms surveyed mid-late summer 2017 to 2019. • In most cases, anemia was regenerative and likely linked to blood loss via the gills. • Anemia is most likely associated with microhemorrhages identified on the gills and liver. • Routine hematology required for fish health monitoring a...
Published in Biologia
Aquaculture is a highly productive and fast-growing agricultural sector. The occurrence of epidemic or sporadic disease outbreak is a major limiting factor in this sector, thus better alternatives are the need of the hour. Use of indigenous probiotics is a promising strategy to control infectious diseases. Thus, the present study was aimed to scree...
