Aquaculture species such as fish, crayfish, molluscs and plats are a wide range of products, with continuously growing demand worldwide. The reasons for this is that they are cheap and easy-to-raise protein sources, thus having significance in food supply especially in developing countries in...

Global warming and climate change projections go back more than 30 years. These processes affect agriculture and that the problems have now been identified and possible solutions and proposals formulated. Climate change may bring extreme climatic anomalies that cannot be accurately predicted...

Neoplastic diseases of fishes are an important topic in the aquatic veterinarian field. The neoplastic malformations are affected the fish species from the early stage of evolution. Nowadays the aquaculture industry is one of the most important food sources. The healthcare of the animals is of...

By the end of this century, the yearly average temperature of Hungary might be increased by 5°C according to some climatic models. Due to this fact, the yearly average temperature of our natural waters is expected to be substantially higher, including the spawning season and the period of larval...

Fish consumption plays a very important role in the life of the increasing human population. Produced amount of the protein by fishing and the aquaculture is only the quarter of the needed protein quantity for the population. Our country occupies a prominent place in freshwater fish production of...

Climate change itself is a natural process. Its global negative effects are derived from the altered (increased) speed, which cannot be compared to the speed of adaptability of organisms. In this study, the fishery management and fish ecological consequences are reviewed via existing case studies...

European catfish is a native, predatory fish species, which has a significant role in the Hungarian aquaculture. The demand of the consumers for market size fish is continuously growing, in order to expanding the production, the development of the catfish rearing in intensive systems is essential....

Due to domestication and colonization, several strains of carp (Cyprinus caprio L.) are distinguished in Hungary. Experts, breeders and fish farms consider their carp populations as different strains, based on location and morphology. However, molecular genetic studies have been limited only to a...

Although Hungarian pond production has long been stagnant, there is a significant fluctuation between years. Moreover, difference in average carp yields of different regions is huge as well. Using econometric tools, the present study aims to identify those production inputs and characteristics of...

After the establishment of artificial fish propagation technique, and after its world-wide spreading - in which Hungarian scientists, namely Elek Woynárovich and László Horváth professors took crucial role - at around 1970 a rapid development started in the aquaculture industry. Further impetus was ...