Serum biochemical parameters are important aspects in the management of endangered species such as Caspiomyzon wagneri. The objective of this survey was to determine some serum ionic and metabolic parameters and those relationships in 22 migratory population of Caspian lamprey in shirood river (a river located at the south of Caspian sea). There was no significant (P<0.05) difference between le...

The objectives of study were to determine whether contaminant-associated immunosuppression occurs in prefledgling herring gulls and Caspian terns from the Great Lakes and to evaluate immunological biomarkers for monitoring health effects in wild birds. During 1992 to 1994, immunological responses and related variables were measured in prefledgling chicks at colonies distributed across a broad g...

-A full-recovery technique was used in mortality experiments conducted with juveniles of American shad Alosa sapidissima and striped bass Morone saxatilis passed through Ossberger crossflow turbines to obtain antecedent information about their fish passage characteristics. Immediate turbine-induced mortality was 66% for 85-mm-long (total length) American shad. Turbineinduced mortality of stripe...

Interrelationships, origin and phylogenetic affinities of brown trout Salmo trutta populations from the southern Caspian Sea basin, Orumieh and Namak Lake basins in Iran were analysed from complete mtDNA control region sequences, 12 microsatellite loci and morphological characters. Among 129 specimens from six populations, seven haplotypes were observed. Based on mtDNA haplotype data, the Orumi...

During a study carried out in spring-summer 2010, the invasive Ponto-Caspian polychaete Hypania invalida (Grube, 1960) was recorded for the first time in the southern part of the River Odra estuary (southern Baltic). This is the first record of this species in Poland or in any a Baltic estuary. The appearance of H. invalida in the Odra estuary coincided with flood water descent in the Odra, sug...

Animals play an important and sometimes overlooked role in nutrient cycling. The of animals cycling is spatially temporally variable, but few studies have evaluated the long-term importance animal-mediated meeting demand by primary producers. We quantified proportion phytoplankton (phosphorus, P) met excretion gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) a eutrophic reservoir where this species dominates...

Abstract Development of a blue economy is firmly embedded in the development plans Bangladesh. Advances freshwater aquaculture have promoted Bangladesh to fifth largest fish producer world. However, marine resource base Bangladesh, which now even greater following recent settling disputes regarding maritime boundaries with neighbouring countries, lends itself aquaculture—known as mariculture. S...

Bream (Abramis brama, Berg, 1949; Family: Cyprinidae) is commercially valuable fish in the Caspian Sea fishing industry. Iranian Fisheries Organization annually produces and release up to 19 million Bream fries size for recruiting of this species. Its fries are mostly released into the Anzali wetland with 4 ppt salinity. Meanwhile, they sometimes are released into Sefidrood River (0.5 ppt), Sef...

Legally certified sturgeon fisheries require population protection and conservation methods, including DNA tests to identify the source of valuable sturgeon roe. However, the available genetic data are insufficient to distinguish between different sturgeon populations, and are even unable to distinguish between some species. We performed high-throughput single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-geno...