Year: 2014
Type: other
Abstract: The culture of marine finfish in cages was successfully initiated in Japan in 1950s and \nin South East Asia during 1970s. In the initial years of cage culture, fish seed for culture was \ncollected from the wild. Recent developments in hatchery technology and seed production of \ncommercially important marine finfish and shellfish have ensured the continuous supply of \nseed for mariculture practices. The disease control and health management are important \nissues for sustainable aquaculture. The disease occurrence causes major economic loss to \naquaculture farmers. Production costs often increase due to disease outbreaks and treatment \nprocedures followed to overcome death of fishes during culture. In natural aquatic \nenvironments, disease problems are unnoticed as diseased/weak/stressed fishes are easily \nremoved by predators and very few occurrences of disease outbreaks are reported. Moreover \nin natural environment fish are not crowded as in captive culture conditions, which ultimately \ncauses stress in fishes frequently.
Authors: Karthireddy Syamala, V D Mhatre, C K Sajeev
Language: English
Subfield: Immunology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Life below water, Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W56136500