Climate change is expected to have a drastic effect on aquaculture worldwide. As we move
forward with the agenda to increase and diversify aquaculture production, rising …

Parasites, causing little apparent damage in feral fish populations, may become causative
agents of diseases of great importance in farmed fish, leading to pathological changes …

Mariculture is a rapidly developing industrial sector. Generally, fish are maintained in net
cages with high density. Cage culture systems allow uncontrolled flow of sea water …

The mortality of juvenile European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (L.), in the spring of the
last 5 years in the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea has been attributed to heavy infections …

Globally, aquaculture industries involved with commercial culture of kingfish (Seriola spp.)
experience outbreaks of monogenean parasites, which can cause heavy stock losses. In …

A total of 240 Nile tilapia were examined between April 2007 and March 2008, gathered
from three different fish farms, 20 fish in each fish farm, in the four seasons of the year. Fish …

The present study was carried out to investigate the effects of parasites, monogenea,
Dactylogyrus spp. and Gyrodactylus spp. on some enzymatic and biochemical components …

The development of dactylogyrids is dependent on water temperature, and their eggs fail to
hatch below 5° C. In the field, however, mean abundance of Dactylogyrus species increases …

Sparicotyle chrysophrii infections were highlighted during a parasitological monitoring
carried out on cultured Gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata Linnaeus 1758 from aquaculture …

Background Evidence concerning the environmental influence on monogenean
transmission and infection processes is widely accepted, although only the effects of a …