Among the jack family (Carangidae), pompanos, Trachinotus spp., are the most farmed globally. The top four most aquacultured species are golden pompano, T. ovatus , snubnose pompano, T. blochii , Indian pompano, T. mookalee , and Florida pompano, T. carolinus . While initial efforts to culture these species heavily relied on wild‐caught small fish of various species (commonly referred to as ‘trash fish’) for growout, pompanos...

This study explores the integration of black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) as a complementary functional ingredient to increase the soybean meal (SBM) inclusion in rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) diets. Six experimental diets were formulated including a control diet as fishmeal (FM), an SBM‐based diet, and 2.5% and 5% whole‐body (WB) or defatted (DB) BSFL‐supplemented SBM‐based diets. Results revealed that BSFL inclusion pos...

Over the years, the intensification of shrimp Penaeus vannamei production has brought challenges such as disease outbreaks and increases in the nutrient loading of effluents. To be more environmentally friendly as production systems intensified, it became necessary to create systems with a high degree of biosecurity and toward efficiency in water and land use. Thus, microbial‐based systems, such as the biofloc, were pioneered...

To prevent catfish idiopathic anaemia, diets fortified with iron have been adopted as a regular practice on commercial catfish farms to promote erythropoiesis. However, the effects of prolonged exposure of excess dietary iron on production performance and disease resistance for hybrid catfish ( Ictalurus punctatus × I. furcatus ) remains unknown. Four experimental diets were supplemented with ferrous monosulphate to provide 0,...

Bile is a yellow‐green liquid produced in the liver from cholesterol and stored in the gallbladder of vertebrates. Bile improves the efficacy of lipid digestion by acting as an emulsifier and is essential in activating bile salt lipase, an enzyme that has broad substrate specificity. Bile improves the absorption of lipid soluble nutrients while also facilitating the excretion of cholesterol and toxic metabolites, particularly...

Angiogenesis is largely driven by motile endothelial tip-cells capable of invading avascular tissue domains and enabling new vessel formation. Highly responsive to Vascular Endothelial Growth-Factor-A (VEGFA), endothelial tip-cells also suppress angiogenic sprouting in adjacent stalk cells, and thus have been a primary therapeutic focus in addressing neovascular pathologies. Surprisingly, however, there remains a paucity of sp...

Starches are added macronutrients in aquafeeds to act as binders and provide inexpensive digestible energy to aquatic animals. These qualities can be further enhanced through gelatinization, which occurs when the crystalline region of amylopectin within the starch granule melts along with the leaching of amylose to form a gel matrix. This process readily occurs in the presence of heat and water, and therefore, some degree of s...

Most physical model tests carried out to quantify wave overtopping are conducted using a wave energy spectrum, which is then used to generate a free surface wave time series at the wave paddle. This method means that an infinite number of time series can be generated, but, due to the expense of running physical models, often only a single time series is considered. The aim of this work is to investigate the variation in the ma...