This special issue contains topics on fisheries and aquaculture, including A recruitment forecasting model for the Pacific stock of the Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus); population structure and reproductive parameters of the longneck croaker Pseudotolithus typus in nearshore waters of...

Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) systems are a promising solution for sustainable aquaculture combining nutrient recycling with increased biomass production. An innovative land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) was studied in France for a 60-day experiment. It combined a...

Diversifying aquaculture in Saudi Arabia with the inclusion of finfish species already reared in the Mediterranean Sea requires a sufficient understanding of the preferences and limits of cultured fish under local conditions. This study was conducted using three finfish species, juveniles...

This proceedings contains 32 papers covering aquaculture, fisheries, fish diseases, effect of environmental pollution on fish, fish feeding and conservation. The first 7 papers discuss the culture, transport and feeding of Clarias gariepinus, Oreochromis niloticus, Benthosema pterotum, Penaeus...

The ability of bivalve culture in the proximity of an open water fin fish farm to reduce the environmental impact caused by organic wastes was tested. The experiment involved floating net cages containing cultured gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) and European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in...

The transit time of feed through the digestive tract of fish is very important in fish culture because it can impact fish feeding rates and growth rates, and feed utilization. We identified a myotropic peptide in a shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) hydrolysate used in aquaculture fish feeds. It is a...

Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) is an emerging disease in shrimp aquaculture which directly caused by binary photorhabdus insect-related (Pir) toxins PirAB^vp from Vibrio parahaemolyticus. To delineating the evolutionary origin and structure variation of PirAB, the protein sequence...

This study was aimed at evaluating growth response, gut health and physiological status of seabream (GSB) and European seabass (ES) juveniles fed diets totally deprived of fish meal and supplemented with alternative ingredients. Fish were fed four isoproteic (45%) and isolipidic (20%) diets in...

This special issue presents a selection of papers presented as posters at the LARVI symposium held in Belgium, which is one of the few international scientific symposia completely dedicated to larval fish and shellfish research. The topics include: the use of probiotics in shrimp larviculture in...