Marine reserves are areas where fishing mortality is reduced, and their effectiveness in enhancing fisheries depends on the magnitude of this reduction. We evaluated the effectiveness of two marine reserves in the Mediterranean that differed in enfor...
Aeromonas hydrophila infection is typically linked to outbreaks of diseases and its pathogenicity seems to be connected to environmental stress in hosts whose immune systems are compromised. Fish diseases have long been treated using synthetic antibi...
The Pantanos de Villa wetland, a protected Ramsar site in Lima, Peru, faces significant pressure from invasive species and urban pollution. This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of microhabitat use and trace-element bioaccumulation in the in...
Annual killifishes of the genus Nothobranchius live in seasonal water bodies in Eastern Africa. Adults die at the end of the rainy season when seasonal pools desiccate but diapaused embryos persist in the sediments and hatch in subsequent rainy seaso...
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This study evaluated the effects of replacing fish meal (FM) with corn peptide (CP) in juvenile tiger puffer in indoor tanks. Four diets were formulated for a 53-day feeding trial: a control group (CP0), and diets with 5% (CP5), 10% (CP10), and 15% (...
Genomic prediction has been increasingly applied in aquaculture selective breeding; however, systematic evaluations of prediction accuracy across multiple aquaculture species and analytical methods under a unified and comparable framework remain limi...
High-precision fish detection is the fundamental prerequisite for automated counting in aquaculture. However, current research lacks lightweight yet highly accurate detection models specifically designed to address occlusion challenges in high-densit...
The Sharpchin Slickhead, Bajacalifornia burragei, is a rarely collected bathypelagic fish endemic to the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, and its genetic diversity remains undocumented. This study characterizes mitochondrial diversity in a localized d...
The whiting, Merlangius merlangus, is a key cold-temperate demersal species in the Black Sea, yet information on its essential habitats and demographic structure remains limited for effective regional management. This study combined fishery-independe...
The largehead hairtail (Trichiurus japonicus) is an economically important fish species distributed in East Asian waters; however, size- or stock-specific spawning traits in females remain poorly understood. In this study, we conducted an integrated...
The aquafeed industry is currently facing severe challenges such as increasingly tight supply and price fluctuations of traditional high-quality protein ingredients like fish meal and soybean meal. Therefore, actively exploring and developing new, st...
Morphine is widely used as an analgesic in vertebrates, yet its cardiorespiratory safety and effective therapeutic range remain poorly explored in fish. This study investigated the dose-dependent effects of morphine on cardiac and respiratory paramet...
The biological characteristics of the Western Butterfish (Pentapodus vitta), a subtropical nemipterid, were determined in a temperate embayment (Cockburn Sound) and compared to those from a previous study in a subtropical embayment (Shark Bay), 700 k...
Trypanosomiasis, caused by flagellated protozoa of the genus Trypanosoma, has recently emerged as a major threat to aquaculture in China, particularly in farmed large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea). Outbreaks lead to high mortality rates and se...
Diet, trophic niche, and mercury were examined for Cyphotilapia frontosa and C. gibberosa along the east coast of Lake Tanganyika, from northern Burundi to the southern region near the Zambian border. Mercury levels were generally low across populati...
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The golden pompano is one of the most economically important marine fish species in Asia-Pacific aquaculture industry. Yet its taxonomic identity has long been obscured, with Trachinotus ovatus, T. blochii, T. mookalee, and T. anak used interchangeab...
The rising global demand for bivalves and declining water quality is placing increasing pressure on depuration facilities to ensure product safety and quality, leading to extended processing times and increased energy consumption. Bacteriophages (pha...
A new species of Poropuntius endemic to the Mae Klong River basin is described and compared to nine congeneric species in the Mae Klong, Chao Phraya, Salween, and Tenasserim River basins. Species of Poropuntius in these basins are almost universally...
Early detection and effective monitoring of aquatic environments are essential for detecting and mitigating potential ecological threats to aquatic organisms and for ensuring the sustainable management of freshwater ecosystems. Passive sampling is an...
To evaluate the potential of compound attractants in ameliorating diet-induced intestinal dysfunction in Siniperca chuatsi fed commercial compound feed, this study investigated their effects on intestinal metabolism and microbiota composition. In thi...
Incorporating protein feed ingredients that exhibit strong attractiveness to the target fish species is an effective and sustainable feeding strategy to improve feed intake and enhance growth performance. An 8-week feeding experiment was performed to...
To assess the status of Coilia nasus resources in the Yangtze River Estuary and support evaluation of fishing ban effectiveness, this study integrated fishery resource survey data and environmental variables collected from 2023 to 2025. A generalized...
Integrated multitrophic aquaculture (IMTA) emerges as a sustainable strategy to control the excess of solids and inorganic nutrients that tend to increase in the biofloc system (BFT) cycle, since the model integrates organisms from different trophic...
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Understanding the chronic thermal acclimation capacity of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) is essential for predicting species resilience and developing mitigation strategies under ocean warming. We investigated the upper limit of chronic thermal accl...
This study investigated the characterization and application of organoclay formulations in a chemoautotrophic biofloc system. Organoclays were produced using the calcination method and bentonite, chitosan, corn, and tapioca starches as ingredients. T...
Extreme natural disasters raise a fundamental question for biologically rigid food production systems: does post-disaster productivity recovery stem from technological change or from adaptive reorganization within existing constraints? In inland aqua...
Offshore aquaculture requires net cages that remain stable under strong currents and during submersion and emergence operations. In this study, we proposed a submersible net cage structure equipped with vertical buoyancy columns as an alternative to...
Marine copepods are an essential live feed for the culture of many marine ornamental fish and other finfish species, yet their production is frequently constrained by contamination from free-living ciliates. To address this challenge, the efficacy of...
This study evaluated the effects of different frozen concentrated microalgal feeds and their mixtures on the growth, digestive enzyme activity, biochemical composition, and metabolomic profiles of adult Manila clams, Ruditapes philippinarum, aiming t...
Investigating the impact of factor mobility (FM) on the economic efficiency of marine fisheries (EEMF) holds scientific reference value for promoting the high-quality development of the marine fisheries economy in China’s coastal regions. This...
Bait costs constitute 40–50% of the total expenditure in river crab aquaculture, highlighting the critical need for accurately assessing crab growth and scientifically determining optimal feeding regimes across different farming stages. Current...
The bactericidal permeability-increasing protein (BPI) and lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LBP) are fundamental to innate immunity. However, their functional diversity and evolutionary conservation in ecologically crucial invertebrates, such as o...
This review examines the status, challenges, and future trajectories of global mussel aquaculture within the blue food system. Despite steady production growth, mussels’ relative contribution to total bivalve output has significantly declined o...
Heavy metal contamination poses concerns for managing Twaite shad (Alosa fallax) populations, yet data remain sparse. Intermittent capture as bycatch, with negligible prospects for post-release survival and IUCN Red listing, provides a compelling cas...
The leopard coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus), an economically important marine fish, is widely farmed in Hainan Province, China. However, intensive farming has led to frequent disease outbreaks, including viral nervous necrosis, vibriosis, and...
The development of effective vaccines is a critical step in effective disease management in aquaculture. This study introduces a novel Multiepitope Chimeric Vaccine (MCV) designed to enhance immunity in lumpfish against Vibrio anguillarum, Aeromonas ...
Fine sediment infiltration is widely discussed as a stressor to wild salmonids’ spawning success, but its mechanisms and severity in wild salmonid redds are difficult to measure. This study examined wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) redd survi...
Identifying floating residual feed is a critical technology in recirculating aquaculture systems, aiding water-quality control and the development of intelligent feeding models. However, existing research is largely based on ideal indoor environments...
Lead (Pb) has progressively become ubiquitous due to widespread use. The liver represents a target of Pb toxicity due to its central role in metabolism and detoxification. The mechanisms of Pb hepatotoxicity have not yet been fully elucidated, althou...
A new species of Poecilia, subgenus Pamphorichthys, is described from the Cachoeirinha River, a tributary of the upper Paraguaçu River basin in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. Pamphorichthys is diagnosed among the Poecilini by the stron...
A recent phylogenetic reconstruction based on molecular genetic data revealed the presence of six well-supported clades within the freshwater fish family Nemacheilidae (Burmese, Eastern, Indochinese, Northern, Southern and Sundaic Clade). Species wit...
Yi’an Reservoir is located on a major tributary of the Baoquan River and hosts abundant aquatic resources, with Cyprinus carpio, Carassius auratus, and Hemiculter leucisculus as the dominant fish species. Water quality parameters significantly...
This study examined the effects of hydrodynamic conditions on the growth performance and nutritional quality of Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) in raceway flumes. Oysters were reared under three flow velocities—low (LV, 5 cm/s), medium (MV,...
Background: Adopting novel feed ingredients and aligning feeding strategies with these formulations are key to improving aquaculture sustainability. This study assessed the combined effects of alternative protein and lipid sources and feeding regime...
Aquarium fish are increasingly being recognized as reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens, with Aeromonas species posing a notable risk because of their environmental resilience and opportunistic pathogenicity. This study presents the most comprehensive ge...
Light, as one of the most crucial environmental factors, plays an essential role in the growth, physiology, and evolutionary survival of fish. To cope with diverse light conditions in aquatic environments, fish adapt through photosensory systems comp...
This study evaluated the effects of copepod use and copepod conditioning strategies on the growth and survival of long-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) juveniles from 1 to 60 days post-parturition (DPP). Four dietary treatments were tested:...
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