Introduction Salinity presents economic and technical challenges in land-based recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) in the U.S. warm water marine finfish aquaculture industry. Many studies have shown euryhaline fish reared at salinities closer to their iso-osmotic salinity can yield enhanced production performance as well as potential reduced costs to farms. However, there is potential for osmotic stress in fish larvae to n...

Bonefish ( Albula vulpes L.) are a highly prized sport fish. Despite their economic importance, populations in the Florida Keys and Caribbean are in decline, with the early life history undescribed. Injections of carp pituitary extract into A. vulpes during the advanced stages of ovarian development induced ovulation and spawning. Embryos were sampled hourly until hatching into undeveloped, yolk‐sac leptocephalus larvae. These...

Evaporative salinization of the agricultural soil is a chronic problem in arid, semiarid and coastal regions worldwide. As a shallow subsurface issue, it is strongly influenced by the free-flow (henceforth, FF) and porous-media (henceforth, PM) flow and transport processes. In specific, it is mainly affected by the mass, momentum and energy exchange between the FF and the PM regions. Furthermore, salt precipitation in such sys...