An increased awareness of food safety and quality has led to an increased demand for live
edible fish. This product requires effective and efficient handling technology and transport to …

Fish display robust neuroendocrine and physiologic stress responses to noxious stimuli.
Many anesthetic, sedative, or analgesic drugs used in other vertebrates reduce stress in fish …

Anaesthetics are important in fish culture to reduce handling stress and mortality. Eugenol is
a promising anaesthetic because of its low cost, efficacy, safety margin for fish and lack of …

Feeding costs contributes up to 60% of the variable costs of cage culture systems. Therefore
the objective of our study was to establish an optimal feeding frequency and feeding rate for …

Intensification of aquaculture practices has increased stress level in fish. Transportation,
handling, sorting by size, weighing, increased farming density, confinement level, and …

This study investigated the efficacy of the essential oil (EO) of Aloysia triphylla as an
anesthetic for albino and gray strains of silver catfish, Rhamdia quelen. Juveniles were …

The increased demand for juvenile tambaqui Colossoma macropomum for grow‐out ponds
and stocking programs in the Amazon state of Brazil has increased the transportation of this …

This study investigated the efficacy of the essential oil of Aloysia triphylla in the transport of
silver catfish (Rhamdia quelen) considering survival, water quality, ionoregulatory balance …

Fish transportation is a regular farming and experimental practice that mainly results in
stress conditions that may extend to induce a high mortality rate. In the present experimental …

Tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum, a native fish species of the Amazon basin, has been
tested in cages placed in floodplain lakes with promising results. The present study …