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Effect of Natural Preservatives (Moringa Leaf and Ginger Root) on Nutrients and Shelf Life of Smoked African Catfish

This research investigates the effectiveness of Moringa, Ginger, and their combination as bio-preservatives for smoked catfish. The study assessed these treatments’ impacts on proximate composition, biochemical and microbiological properties, and sensory attributes over a 12 week st... (14 Jan., 2025)

Effects of Vitamin A Supplementation in Female Broodstock Diets of African Catfish on Egg Quality, Egg and Liver Retinol, Ovary Estradiol, and Larval Survival

The effect of feeding five experimental diets NoRE, 1666RE, 3332RE, 6664RE, 13,328RE containing different vitamin A acetate levels (VA): 0, 1666, 3332, 6664 13328 40, 60 IU kg -1 diet, respectively, on egg quality, egg and liver retinol, ovary estradiol, and larval survival rate of African cat... (25 Oct., 2024)

Unwinding the Potential of Probiotics in Aquaculture

The recent past has seen an over growing interest in the probiotics, considering them as efficient bioremidiators, due to their therapeutic and prophylactic activities. More so in aquaculture where the need for growth, feed efficiency, water quality, disease resistance and immunity are of prom... (15 Nov., 2024)

Optimizing Coral Farming: A Comparative Analysis of Nursery Designs for Acropora aspera, Acropora muricata, and Montipora digitata in Anantara Lagoon, Maldives

Maldivian coral reefs have undergone a substantial degradation due to a combination of anthropogenic pressure and global climate change. In response to the 2016 coral bleaching event, Anantara Dhigu, Anantara Veli, and Naladhu Private Island launched the Holistic Approach to Reef Protection (H... (21 Oct., 2024)

Sustainable Management of Northeastern Madagascar Halieutic Resources

This present study analyses the management of fishery resources to ensure their sustainability and rational exploitation in fishing villages of the Loky-Manambato marine protected area (LM-MPA), which are located in Vohemar district and SAVA region of the northeastern coast of Madagascar. Base... (15 Jul., 2024)

The Role of Digital Technologies in Supporting Climate Change Adaptation in Fisheries and Aquaculture

The Indeed, future climate change needs calls for action since its effects are seen. The impacts of climate change seen over the years may include rising mean temperatures, sea level rise, explosive intensification of cyclones, irregular precipitation patterns, soil and beach erosion and the e... (26 Jul., 2024)

Floodplains Suitability Assessment for Fish Culture in Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

Though highly important in food and nutritional security of Ethiopia, fish production which usually comes from lakes and reservoirs is low irrespective of the natural and manmade water potentials of the country. Significant amounts of depressed land areas in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia... (17 Nov., 2023)

Analysis of SSR Information in Aquatic Plant Euryale ferox Salisb Transcriptome

In order to study the genetic diversity breeding of aquatic plant Euryale ferox Salisb, this paper developed Euryale ferox Salisb EST-SSR marker by transcriptome sequencing technology, and 86 829 Unigenes were screened. Then we got 9 640 SSR loci from transcriptome by using the s... (13 Apr., 2023)

Cloning and Characterization of Aquaporins 11 and Its Expression Analysis under Molt Cycle in Eriocheir sinensis

Aquaporins play important roles in water molecule transport, ion transport, and osmotic pressure regulation. In this study, the full-length cDNA of aquaporin from Chinese mitten crab ( Eirocheir sinensis ) was cloned for first time using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and rapi... (07 Apr., 2023)

The Action of “Draining the Lake Water” to Capture the Alien Species Alligator Gar (Atractosteus spatula) was Staged in He’nan, China

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Muscular Coloration Diversity and Microsatellite Genetic Differentiation for the Clam Paphia amabilis (Philippi, 1847)

Paphia amabilis is an important fishery shellfish widely distributing along Southeast Asia coast. The muscles of its foot and siphons are commonly colored bright red-orange due to the presence of C37 skeletal carotenoids. However, 10.5%-18.6% of yellow-muscled indivi... (26 Feb., 2021)

Influence of Ovaprim And Pituitary Gland on The Reproductive Indices and Growth of Clarias garipienus (Burchell, 1822) Broodstock Reared in An Indoor and Outdoor Pond

Ovaprim and pituitary gland from C. gariepinus was used to ascertain the reproductive indices and growth value of the hatchlings (F1) of C. gariepinus at the Fisheries and Research Institute Baga. Broodstocks mean body weight males (1200 g) and females (800 g) was colle... (18 Mar., 2021)

Temporal Variations of Micro Benthic Assemblage in the Sangu River Estuary, Bangladesh

Temporal distribution of shellfish assemblages, together with water quality data, was conducted in the Sangu river estuary of Bangladesh to assess shellfish's diversity index during winter, pre-monsoon, and monsoon and post-monsoon periods. A total of 15 species of shellfish belonging to ... (30 Oct., 2020)

Potential Bioactive Compound Seaweed Halimeda micronesica and Halimeda macroloba as Antioxidant and Phytochemical Screening of Active Seaweed Extracts from Maspari Island

The species H. micronesica and H. macroloba are a group of green seaweed (Chlorophyta) which are found in the waters of Pulau Maspari. The purposes of this study was to analyze the activity of antioxidant and phytochemicals compounds of the active extract of seaweed H. micronesica ... (16 Oct., 2020)

Cultivation of Seaweed E.spinosum in Open Waters Using Bags Methods Around Pahawang Island Waters, South Lampung

Seaweed cultivation in Pahawang Island waters have a serious problem like predators from Baronang fish and sea turtle, strong current and big waves also give big impact for seaweed cultivation at there. Bag nets is one of method who can be a solution for that problems. The aim of this research... (18 Sep., 2020)

Efficacy of Evaluation of Gut Probiotics against White Gut and White Feces Disease in Litopenaeus vannamei Shrimp Aquaculture Systems in Two Different Geographical Regions of Andhra Pradesh

The aim of the study is to investigate the efficacy of gut probiotics in shrimp aquaculture system for the prevention of white gut (WG) and white feces (WF) disease in Litopenaeus vannamei . The study was executed in infected L. vannamei culture ponds in Varadarajapuram and Cheyyeru Gunnepa... (25 Sep., 2020)

Development of Microsatellite Markers for the Hermatypic Coral Porites lutea

By mining the EST and genomic microsatellite sequence resources of Porites species in GenBank, and using interspecific amplification and resequencing, we developed 20 microsatellite markers for the stony coral Porites lutea , meanwhile, validated and excluded 43 microsatellite markers of it... (12 May, 2020)

Cloning and Expression Analysis of Cdc25 Gene of Sipunculus nudus in Oocytes

Cell division cycle 25 (Cdc25) is an important dual specificity phosphatase, which plays an important role in regulating the process of oocyte meiosis and embryo development. In this study, the full-length cDNA of Sn-Cdc25 was cloned from S. nudus using RACE technology. The results show th... (22 Apr., 2020)

Construction of pCMV-myd88 and pCMV-traf6 Eukaryotic Expression Vectors in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Both myeloid differentiation primary response gene 88 (MyD88) and TNF receptor associated factor 6 (TRAF6) are key adaptor molecules in the Toll-like receptors family (TLR). Zebrafish is a unique model organism for studying the innate immune response. In order to construct eukaryotic expressio... (16 Apr., 2020)

Effect of Dietary Protein on Growth, Feed Utilization and Body Composition of Silver Catfish Schilbe intermedius Rüppel, 1832 Fingerlings

The captive breeding of the Silver catfish Schilbe intermedius was envisaged to promote the aquaculture and to reduce the overfishing of this endangered species. S. intermedius fingerlings were fed various dietary protein levels to investigate their growth performance, feed utilizatio... (17 Apr., 2020)