Responsibility
Food security is a priority in India, and there is huge potential for the expanded culture of non-native fish species. While many farmers have improved their socio-economic conditions through farming non-native fish species, their spread into open water resources presents a threat to biodiversity.
Health & Welfare
Un estudio con tilapia del Nilo llevado a cabo en jaulas de producción comercial en Brasil mostró el potencial – en ausencia de las amenazas de las principales enfermedades – de un promotor del crecimiento comercial, natural que modula la microbiota (inhibiendo el crecimiento de bacterias patógenas y promoviendo el crecimiento de bacterias beneficiosas) e inhibiendo la detección de quórum.
Innovation & Investment
A large-scale aquaculture project in Ivory Coast, with "soft technology" adopted by Societe d’Elevage et de Distribution de Poissons, allows the full growing cycle to be controlled using local materials, manpower and inputs.
Health & Welfare
Some of the more promising alternatives to antibiotics for the treatment of Nile tilapia are found in the group of organic acids and their salts.
Aquafeeds
Through two lab trials, the authors examined the potential of feed additives to increase growth and feed utilization in Nile tilapia.
Health & Welfare
A recent study compared the growth and survival at different salinity levels of “super male” (YY) tilapia with normal sex O. niloticus reversed to 100 percent phenotypic males.
Health & Welfare
Early postmetamorphic stages of fish feed mainly on zooplankton. As larvae develop, their dietary requirements change and they adopt adult dietary habits.
Aquafeeds
Experiment evaluates effects of feed color on the growth and survival of Nile tilapia fingerlings reared in a recirculating system.
Health & Welfare
Sterilization by induced triploidy is an effective method to suppress natural reproduction and therefore its stunting effect in Nile tilapia grow-out ponds.
Health & Welfare
Environmental factors can influence the sex ratios of fishes, and this knowledge could be useful to develop all-male Nile tilapia stocks without hormones.
Health & Welfare
Once a pathogen breaches the physical barriers of its host, it encounters the nonspecific immune response components that attack and help destroy the pathogen.