background: propolis, a honeybee product, has been used empirically for centuries and was always mentioned as an immunomodulatory. objectives: in this study, the effects of propolis on growth indices, innate immune responses and haematological parameters of barbus barbulus were investigated. methods: three hundred and sixty juvenile barbus barbulus, weighing 102±8.2g were randomly divided into ...

background: the aim of this study was to detect the occurrence of parasites in fish in armand river, chaharmahal va bakhtyari province regarding the importance of native fish population in the river. methods: the occurrence of parasites was investigated in 6 native fish ( capoeta capoeta, c. damas­cina, c. aculeta, barbus barbulus, b. grypus and glyptothorax silviae ) collected from the current...

Branchioblastoma in Sardinella longiceps is described in present study. Large tumour masses were found under the operculum. Tumour is characterized by the multilobed and pale to red in color and located in the brachial chamber of the fish. It varied in consistency from very soft and triable to hard and also vary in size from 17 mm to 33 mm in diameter and 18 to 44 mm in length. Prevalence study...

Capoeta damascina was earlier considered by many authors as one of the most common freshwater fish species found throughout the Levant, Mesopotamia, Turkey, and Iran. However, owing to a high variation in morphological characters among and within its various populations, 17 nominal species were described, several of which were regarded as valid by subsequent revising authors. Capoeta damascina ...

background: evaluation of herbicide pollution in aquatic environments needs the great concern and the most important echo-pollutant effects of herbicides are related to their effects on non target aquatic organisms. native fish can serve as a proper bio-indicator for evaluation  of pollution on aquatic ecosystems. objectives: to find environmentally friendly herbicides, in this study the acute ...

Fatty acid composition of fish is one of the key factors for the evaluation of fish nutritional value and it could be different based on fish species, habitat, nutrition and etc. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the fatty acid composition of five commercially important freshwater fish from the fish market. Studied fish were as follows: Barbell, Luciobarbus pectoralis (Heckel, 1843),...

a survey on endo-parasitic infections on barboid fishes of south- west of iran (khouzestan province) was carried out from spring 2007 to atumn 2009. altogether 296 specimens from five different fish species were examined, they are barbus grypus heckel, 1843; barbus sharpeyi günther, 1874; barbus esocinus heckel, 1843; barbus barbulus heckel, 1849 and barbus pectoralis heckel 1843. the fishes we...