Health & Welfare
Fish vaccines in aquaculture
Vaccines are a proven, cost-effective method to prevent infectious diseases in animals. Current vaccinations for fish can be categorized as killed fish vaccines or modified live vaccines.
Health & Welfare
Review: Use of organic acids, salts in fish diets
Published information on the effects of including organic acids and their salts at low concentrations in aquafeeds varies according to fish species and age, as well as the types and levels of organic acids and salts used.
Health & Welfare
Feed deprivation reduces resistance of juvenile channel catfish to ESC
Witholding feed from channel catfish during the manifestation of enteric septicemia is a common practice, but discontinued feeding after an ESC challenge increased mortality.
Health & Welfare
Dietary gossypol benefits limited in improving ESC resistance in catfish
The amount of cottonseed meal that can be included in fish diets depends mainly on its levels of free gossypol and available lysine.
Health & Welfare
Dietary cottonseed meal affects growth, hematology, immune responses of Nile tilapia
Cottonseed meal is less expensive than soybean meal, and studies have explored whether it can be incorporated in fish diets without affecting growth performance.