Browsing by Department "Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures"
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Assessing Southern Flounder Population in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(2017-11-20)
Abstract
Despite Southern Flounder being a commercially and recreationally important flatfish species in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM), our understanding is poorly described of its population dynamics. I collected ...
Assessing the Reliability of Water Test Kits for Use in Small-Scale Aquaculture
(2015-12-11)
Water analysis kits are useful for practical aquaculture only if they give results as accurate as those obtained by standard water analysis methods. This study used weighted Cohen’s Kappa statistic to compare management ...
Assessment of Electrofishing Bias, Angler Exploitation, and a Creel Survey, and Flathead Catfish Population Assessment in Lake Wilson, Alabama
(2008-08-15)
A popular recreational and commercial catfish fishery for blue catfish Ictalurus furcatus, channel catfish I. punctatus, and to a lesser extent, flathead catfish Pylodictus olivaris exists on Lake Wilson, Alabama. Catfish ...
Assessment of larval fish entrainment at Plant Barry Steam Electric Generating Facility on the Mobile River, Alabama
(2006-12-15)
This study examined larval fish entrainment at Plant Barry Steam Electric Generating Facility near Mobile, Alabama with both short-term intensive (17-21 May 2004) sampling and a long-term (September 2004June 2005) collection ...
Assessment of Queen Conch, Lobatus gigas, Density, Middens and Permitting Requirements, in South Eleuthera, Bahamas
(2012-12-06)
Subject to subsistence and commercial harvest for decades, the queen conch, Lobatus gigas, has been subject to additional pressure in the Bahamas as stocks have been depleted in other countries that were historically ...
Assessment Strategies for Data-Limited Chinook Salmon Stocks of Western Alaska
(2015-12-08)
Management strategies for Alaskan Pacific salmon species are conducted in the face of substantial uncertainty, particularly in large drainage systems. In addition to the interacting sources of partial observability and ...
Association analysis of intraspecific ESC resistance QTL and identification of landscape of promoters in catfish on the genome-wide level
(2019-07-02)
Catfish is the most important aquaculture species, accounting for over 50% of aquaculture production in the US. However, disease problems threaten the survival of the catfish industry. Bacterial diseases are a major issue ...
Best Management Practices For West Alabama Catfish Production: Creating Profitability Through Efficiency, Consistency, and Quality
(2013-10-11)
The U.S. catfish industry is in a time of transition. In the last several years feed prices have been at historically high levels as fish prices have fluctuated wildly. Furthermore, in recent years the industry has ...
Bio-economic Factors Affecting Feasibility of Floating In-pond Raceway Systems: A Stella Modeling Approach
(2011-05-19)
Floating in-pond raceway (FIPR) systems have the potential to efficiently compete with conventional ponds in their ability to produce large quantities of fish profitably. However, little is known about the biological and ...
Biodiversity and Phylogenetics of Metazoan Parasites Infecting Freshwater Turtles
(2020-04-20)
There are 356 extant turtle species (Testudines), including 60 polytypic taxa that add 122 subspecies. Among the more diverse groups of metazoan parasites that infect turtles are the turtle blood flukes (TBFs) (Digenea: ...
Biodiversity of Metazoan Parasites Infecting Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus), and C×B Hybrid Catfish (Female Ictalurus punctatus × Male Ictalurus furcatus) in Earthen Pond Aquaculture
(2011-08-04)
This 1-year in-pond study documents the metazoan parasite biodiversity in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus), and C×B hybrid catfish (female Ictalurus punctatus × male Ictalurus furcatus) ...
Bioeconomics of Flavobacterium columnare vaccine pond trials for channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus
(2020-05-11)
The US farm-raised catfish industry has had a variety of problems in the last decade, both in production and marketing. Increased disease pressures have come primarily from the ubiquitous pathogens responsible for columnaris ...
Biofilm formation by the fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare: a quantitative and qualitative study
(2013-04-30)
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect that temperature, pH, salinity, hardness and carbohydrates have on biofilm formation by the fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare. Nineteen F. columnare strains, ...
Biofilm formation, virulence attenuation and comparative genomics of the fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare
(2018-11-27)
Flavobacterium columnare is an important bacterial fish pathogen that causes great economic losses in aquaculture. In this dissertation I aimed at characterizing part of its life cycle including the transition between ...
Black Bass Habitat Use and Availability at Multiple Scales in Middle Chattahoochee River Tributaries
(2015-12-10)
The focus of this study was on tributaries of the Middle Chattahoochee River where Shoal Bass Micropterus cataractae and Chattahoochee Bass Micropterus chattahoochae are experiencing declines, mainly due to anthropogenic ...
Bottom Soil Quality in Ponds for Culture of Catfish, Freshwater Prawn, and Carp in Thailand
(2006-05-15)
Bottom soil samples were collected from 42 catfish (Clarias hybrid) ponds, 40 freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) ponds, and 18 carp (Puntius spp.) ponds in Thailand. The ponds ranged from 1 to 30 years in age. ...
Brood stock nutrition: enhancement of egg quality for the production of hybrid catfish
(2007-08-15)
The catfish industry is one of the largest and best developed aquaculture segments in the United States. The development of technological solutions to maintain a competitive level in the market is key to this success. The ...
Bulk segregant RNA-seq reveals expression and positional candidate genes and allele-specific expression for disease resistance against enteric septicemia of catfish
(2013-11-15)
The application of RNA-seq has accelerated gene expression profiling and identification of gene-associated SNPs in many species. However, the integrated studies of gene expression along with SNP mapping have been lacking. ...
Capture and Mortality Rates of Largemouth Bass at Guntersville and Wheeler Reservoirs, Alabama
(2016-06-13)
Catch-and-release angling for Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides has substantially increased since the 1980s, yet few studies have assessed the population-level consequences of these activities. Guntersville and Wheeler ...
Catfish Research Verification Trials in West Alabama Using Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and Hybrid Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus x Ictalurus furcatus)
(2015-05-06)
Abstract
From 2010-2013 three management protocols were followed over 21 production cycles on three farms in west Alabama. The protocols were an owner defined multiple-batch Treatment A, an Extension defined single-batch ...