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Economic assessment of investment in automatic feeding systems for sea bass grow-out farms of different sizes
(Wiley, 2023-04-27)
The aim of this work was to run an economic assessment of investment in automatic feeding systems for grow-out farms of different sizes producing European sea bass in the Mediterranean Sea. For this, ...
Assessing the economic impact of key operational factors on grow-out farms producing European sea bass under different scenarios of production
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-11-05)
The aim of this work is to evaluate how changes in a set of different key operational factors (e.g., the unit sales price, the fingerling unit cost, the feed unit cost, and so on) would impact on the ...
An assessment of health management and biosecurity procedures in marine fish farming in Spain
(Elsevier, 2022-06-06)
Marine fish farming in Spain has experienced problems of performance due to losses caused by infectious diseases. Biosecurity and health management are identified by the Food and Agriculture Organization ...
Assessing the economic impact of diseases in Mediterranean grow-out farms culturing European sea bass
(Elsevier, 2021-09-27)
The aim of this work is to propose a novel and formal approach to evaluate the direct costs of diseases caused by different pathogens as well as their economic impact on typical Mediterranean grow-out ...
Effect of the dietary supplementation based on essential oils on the quality of gilthead seabream
(Wiley, 2022-02-28)
The effectiveness of using essential oils against fish parasites and pathogenic bacteria as environmentally friendly phytotherapeutic agents in the aquaculture industry is demonstrated. A commercial ...
Applying the FAO Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET) to assess the fish farming disease surveillance system in Spain
(Frontiers, 2024-07-17)
EU Member States should ensure that they implement adequate health surveillance schemes in all aquaculture farming areas, as appropriate for the type of production. This study presents the results of ...
DHA-enrichment of live and compound feeds influences the incidence of cannibalism, digestive function, and growth in the neotropical catfish Pseudoplatystoma punctifer (Castelnau, 1855) during early life stages
(Elsevier, 2022-07-30)
Pseudoplatystoma punctifer is a highly appreciated fish species native to the Amazon basin, whose commercial farming has been hampered by low survival during early life stages due to the high incidence ...
Effects of dietary lipid levels on lipid accumulation and health status of adult Onychostoma macrolepis
(Elsevier, 2023-08-18)
The effects of different dietary lipid levels on lipid accumulation, inflammatory response, serum bio-chemical index and histological features of intestine and hepatopancreas of O. macrolepis was ...
Spray-Dried Porcine Plasma Promotes the Association Between Metabolic and Immunological Processes at Transcriptional Level in Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata) Gut
(Frontiers Media, 2022-02-18)
The spray-dried porcine plasma (SDPP) is an abattoir by-product used in animal nutrition with beneficial effects reported in livestock and commercial aquatic species. Previous results have found that ...
Effects of Dietary Lipid Levels on Growth and Gonad Development of Onychostoma macrolepis Broodfish
(MDPI, 2022-10-18)
To assess the lipid requirements of O. macrolepis broodstock, five iso-nitrogenous diets (39 g kg−1) with five lipid levels, 50 (5 L), 70 (7 L), 90 (9 L),110 (11 L), and 130 (13 L; g kg−1), were made. ...