Fish and other organisms are affected by pesticides which pollute the natural water through agricultural runoff. The aim of this study was to determine the acute toxicity of botanical pesticide, neem gold, and two synthetic pesticides, permethrin and monocrotophos, which are extensively used in agricultural farms. The mortality rate of Cyprinus carpio was monitored under laboratory conditions f...

Mariculture production has increased significantly in recent years due to global rise in human population. However, in addition to providing food, fish farms are also a source of nutrients and antibiotics to the water column. Here, we model the nutrient changes originating from fish cages in the EasternMediterranean by utilizing a Lagrangian modeling approach that followed trajectories of the w...

The changing geographic distribution of marine anemia (plasmacytoid leukemia) was compared with the evolving demographics of the chinook farming industry in British Columbia to explore the hypothesis that the disease had spread throughout the province between 1987 and 1992. Through retrospective and prospective methods, it was shown that the apparent spread of the disease was likely an artifact...

A comparative analysis of the microbiological quality of three turbot (Scophthalnus maximus) farms (A, B, and C) located in Galicia (northwest Spain) is given. The microbial load and types of bacteria in the internal organs (liver and kidney) of apparently healthy fish was monitored over a year, and all the disease problems occurring during this survey were analyzed. The percentage of healthy t...

The Phylum Protozoa brings together several organisms evolutionarily different that may act as ecto or endoparasites of fishes over the world being responsible for diseases, which, in turn, may lead to economical and social impacts in different countries. Apart from the recent advances for the diagnosis of fish diseases in Brazil, little is known on the protozoan parasites and their relationshi...

Serbian aquaculture is practiced in warmwater (carp) farms, coldwater (trout) cage systems, recirculating systems (RAS) and fish tanks. The total area under carp farms (ponds) registered by the Statistical Office of Republic Serbia (SORS) last fourteen years has varied between 6,192 8,940 ha, while trout was 33,255 m2 81,411 m2. Total production over 5,070 tons, recorded 2017 8,195 tons market ...

Acipenseriformes are composed of 25 sturgeon species and two paddlefish species distributed exclusively in the northern hemisphere. The Danube River and the Black Sea were originally inhabited by six sturgeon species but two are extinct and only four are still reproducing currently in the Lower Danube: Huso huso, Acipenser stellatus, A. gueldenstaedtii and A. ruthenus. Sturgeon species hybridiz...

Fish farms have been suggested to promote virulence of the harmful fish bacterium Flavobacterium columnare [1], causing columnaris disease in farmed salmonids in freshwaters. Skin lesions, fin erosion and gill necrosis associated with the bacterial infection are fatal, especially to fingerling fish if left untreated. This makes the bacterium as one of the most serious threats to fresh water sal...