REDUCED GROWTH IN HYBRID TILAPIA (OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS×O. NILOTICUS) AT INTERMEDIATE STOCKING DENSITY

ＩＮＴＲＯＤＵＣＴＩＯＮＩｎｍｏｓｔｓｔｕｄｉｅｓ,ｇｒｏｗｔｈｒａｔｅｏｆｆｉｓｈｗａｓｆｏｕｎｄｔｏｄｅｃｒｅａｓｅｗｉｔｈｉｎｃｒｅａｓｉｎｇｄｅｎｓｉｔｙ ,ｅｓｐｅｃｉａｌｌｙｗｈｅｎｔｈｅｄｅｎｓｉｔｙｗａｓａｂｏｖｅａｃｒｉｔｉｃａｌｐｏｉｎｔ (ＲｅｆｓｔｉｅａｎｄＫｉｔｔｌｅｓｉｎ ,1 976;Ｒｅｆｓｔｉｅ,1 977;Ｔｒｚｅｂｉａ ｔｏｗｓｋｉｅｔａｌ.,1 981 ;ＶｉｊａｙａｎａｎｄＬｅａｔｈｅｒｌａｎｄ ,1 988) .Ｈｏｗｅｖｅｒ,ｉｎａｃｏｌｄ ｗａｔｅｒｃａｒｎｉｖｏｒｏｕｓｆｉｓｈ ,ｔｈｅＡ…     

Compensatory growth in hybrid tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus×O. niloticus) reared in seawater, following restricted feeding

1 INTRODUCTION Compensatory growth or catch-up growth is a phase of unusual rapid growth induced by a period of environmental restriction; it had been demon-strated in a wide range of fish species following food deprivation (Bilton and Robins, 1973; Dobson and Holmes, 1984; Miglavs and Jobling, 1989; Quinton and Blake, 990; Wieser et al., 1992; Reim-ers et al., 1993; Kim and Lovell, 1995; Paul et al., 1995), restricted feeding (Weatherley and Gill, 1981; Jobling and Koskela, 1996; P…     

NUTRITIONAL LIPID LIVER DISEASE OF GRASS CARP CTENOPHARYNGODON IDULLUS(C.et V.)

The inadequate nutrient content of pellet feeds widely used in recent years in China for grass carp forming led to lipid liver degeneration in the fish. The present studies show that the pathological features of lipid liver disease are anaemia and hepatic ceroidosis. Other clinical features are: the ratio of liver to body weight exceeds 3% and lipid content exceeds 5%. Extreme infiltration of hepaiocytes by lipid results in the following deteriorative effects: swelling of the liver cells, increase of lipid droplets in the cytoplasm and dislocation of the nucleus, loss of cytoplasm staining affinity, and increased activities of GOT and GPT in serum. Lipid liver degeneration of grass carp can be divided into three stages: 1) deposition of liver lipid; 2) lipid infiltration of hepatic parenchyma; 3) atrophy of liver nucleus. The causes of lipid liver degeneration are complicated, but the main cause is assumed to be an imbalance of nutrients in daily feed and the lack of some lipotropic substances.