Several species of fresh water fish including common carp (Cyprinus carpio), rohu (Labeo rohita), mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are being farmed in India in order to meet the increasing demand for fresh fish. Among the fresh water fishes, rainbow trout is farmed in many parts of India. Worldwide, farmed trout production is increasing. The demand for trout in...

Cellulose and xylan are the most common Non-Starch Polysaccharides (NSPs); they are available in plants and they exhibit anti-nutritional effects. The present study is intended to detect cellulose and xylan degrading autochthonous gut bacteria in Indian major carps (Labeo rohita, Catla catla, and Cirrhinus mrigala) and exotic carps (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, Ctenopharyngodon idella, and Cypr...

Mosquito control with the use of insecticides is faced with the challenges of insecticide resistance in disease vectors, community refusal, their high cost, operational difficulties, and environmental concern. In view of this, integrated vector control strategies with the use of larvivorous fishes such as Guppy (Poecilia reticulata) and Gambusia (G. affinis) as biological control agents were us...

The present study was conducted to determine the bacterial contamination and prevalence of foodborne pathogens in imported frozen fish. A total of 450 imported fish samples [65 catfish (Pangasius pangasius), 45 mirgal (Cirrhinus mrigala), 135 tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), 50 carfoo (Cyprinus carpio), 75 Rohu (Labeo rohita), 35 milk fish (Chanos chanos) and 45 Mackerel (Rastrelliger brachysom...

Background: The use of probiotics in aquaculture is increasingly acknowledged, thanks to rising demand for environment friendly aquaculture. However, there an obvious need improve our understanding gut microbiology, as well the effective preparation and safety assessment probiotics. Methods: experiment comprised five treatments evaluate influence probiotic on water quality, growth body composit...

An experiment was conducted to determine the growth performance of two Indian Major Carps Catla catla, and Cirrhinus mrigala fingerlings for period of 40 days. Nine experimental groups fed commercial pellet diet incorporated with three types of nutritional supplements (Gram positive lactobacil probiotic, Parry’s Spirulina and Vitamin C – Ascorbic acid) at different concentrations (2 %, 4 %, & 8...

Pollution of water resources is a serious and growing problem, despite the existence of relevant legislations. Genotoxic studies on industrial pollutants are very important as they tend to accumulate in aquatic animals. Thus use of aquatic organisms to detect the genotoxicity is very useful in environment monitoring. For this chromosomal aberration test was employed to study genotoxicity caused...