Fish farm sediments receive a large amount of organic matter from uneaten food and fecal material. This nutrient enrichment, or organic pollution, causes the accumulation of sulphide in the sediment from the action of sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB). We investigated the effect of organic enrichment around coastal fish farms comparing the SRB community structure in these sediments. Sediment sam...

This paper describes a study of the risk factors associated with disease outbreaks in fish species of fish farms and rivers of north-east Spain. We focused our work on the isolation of fish pathogens (bacteria, virus), the water quality (physicochemical and microbiological quality) and management characteristics. We have observed 2 important viral diseases, infectious pancreatic necrosis and sp...

Although increased disease severity driven by intensive farming practices is problematic in food production, the role of evolutionary change in disease is not well understood in these environments. Experiments on parasite evolution are traditionally conducted using laboratory models, often unrelated to economically important systems. We compared how the virulence, growth and competitive ability...

In fall 2013, anorexia, lethargy and mortalities up to 10-12,000 dead fish per week were observed in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in three fresh water hatcheries (salinity 0-1 ‰) on the west coast of Norway. The fish (25-100 g) showed signs of circulatory failure with haemorrhages, ascites and anaemia. The histopathological findings comprised inflammation of the heart and red muscle and li...

. Fish are thought to settle and recruit shellfish seaweed farms; however, there is little published evidence support this assumption. Shellfish farms increase structural complexity epibiota productivity, which may attract settling fish larvae. In study, settlement recruitment patterns into 2 aquaculture habitats, mussel-kelp co-culture mussel farm monoculture, were compared adjacent natural so...

the aim of this descriptive- correlational study was to assess trout farm fisheries owners' managerial skills and its relation with their farm yield. the statistical population consisted of all trout farm fisheries with official production license in mahneshan county (147 units) which 110 units as sample selected by multi-stage randomized sampling method based on cochran's sampling fo...