Health & Welfare
Vaccinating Nile tilapia against Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV)
Immunized Nile tilapia broodstock can mount a protective antibody response to Tilapia Lake Virus and transfer antibodies to progeny.
Health & Welfare
Vacunación del tilapia del Nilo contra el Virus del Lago de Tilapia (TiLV)
Reproductores inmunizados de tilapia del Nilo pueden montar una respuesta de anticuerpos protectores al Virus del Lago de Tilapia y transferir anticuerpos a la progenie.
Aquafeeds
Balancing protein and energy in Nile tilapia feeds
An analysis of the effects of protein and energy intake shows no physiological basis for an optimal P:E ratio for tilapia.
Health & Welfare
How feed and water additives are used on Egypt’s Nile tilapia farms
Trends in the use of additives in small-scale fish farming in Egypt show the need to establish costs and benefits and promote their appropriate use.
Health & Welfare
Assessing the bacterium Enterococcus faecium as a probiotic for Nile tilapia
E. faecium is a potential probiotic for Nile tilapia, showing improved growth rates, reduced mortality in a challenge with S. agalactiae.
Health & Welfare
Genomic prediction for feed efficiency traits in Nile tilapia
Genomic prediction markedly outperformed pedigree-based prediction, highlighting the potential to improve feed efficiency traits in Nile tilapia.
Responsibility
Emergy synthesis assessment of tilapia farming in biofloc systems
Analysis of a tilapia fingerlings biofloc farm showed it had emergy indicator values characteristic of potentially sustainable production.
Health & Welfare
Heritable variation in swimming performance in Nile tilapia
Evaluation of swimming in Nile tilapia shows critical swimming speed is heritable and can predict fish growth performance.
Aquafeeds
Effect of feeding during off-flavor depuration on geosmin excretion by Nile tilapia
Evaluating off-flavor depuration time in Nile tilapia shows it is strongly reduced when farmers adopt a practice of feeding the fish.
Aquafeeds
Effect of exogenous enzymes in plant-based diets on growth of Nile tilapia fingerlings
Exogenous enzymes phytase and a xylanase-β-glucanase mixture can, individually or combined, improve growth performance of juvenile Nile tilapia.
Aquafeeds
Evaluation of yeast-fermented poultry byproduct meal in Nile tilapia
Inclusion of yeast-fermented poultry byproduct meal in Nile tilapia diets, at rates ranging from 11 to 25 percent, improved fish growth and health.
Aquafeeds
Comparing microalgae-blend diets to reference diet for Nile tilapia
Nutritional study with Nile tilapia compared three microalgal diets to a reference diet containing fishmeal and fish oil levels found in commercial feed.
Aquafeeds
Effect of dietary non-starch polysaccharides on tilapia productivity in ponds
An assessment of the effect of type of dietary non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) on the productivity of tilapia cultured in ponds.
Responsibility
Productive performance of Nile tilapia juveniles in water reused from biofloc systems
Trial evaluates the productive performance of Nile tilapia juveniles reared at high density using water reused from prior biofloc technology cultures.
Intelligence
Evaluating Nile tilapia, giant freshwater prawns in biofloc and RAS
Study evaluates Nile tilapia in monoculture and polyculture with giant freshwater prawns in biofloc and recirculating aquaculture (RAS) conditions.
Intelligence
Evaluación de la producción comercial intensiva de tilapia del Nilo en IPRS
Estudio evalúa los sistemas de raceways en estanques para producir tilapia del Nilo alimentada con una dieta que incluye harina de soya de EE. UU. en condiciones de producción intensiva.