Thermal elevation and residual chlorine pollution are two anthropogenic stressors that co-occur in estuarine waters affected by coastal power plant effluents. A 30-day exposure experiment was established with six treatment combinations comprising three temperatures (27 °C, 28 °C, and 30 °C) and two residual chlorine concentrations (0 mg/L and 0.02 mg/L) on Meretrix meretrix. Sampling was conducted on days 0, 10, 20 and 30 of t...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of different feeding-promoting substances added to high plant protein diets on the growth, antioxidant, serum biochemical parameters, immune, and feeding-related genes of Procambarus clarkii. A total of 450 crayfish (3.94 ± 0.03 g) were selected and randomly divided into six groups, with each group consisting of three replicates and 25 crayfish per replicate. The crayfis...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of dietary tryptophan (Trp) on growth performance and muscle quality of Procambarus clarkii. Six experimental diets with graded Trp concentrations (0.05%, 0.13%, 0.29%, 0.43%, 0.56%, 0.69%; designated Trp0.05 to Trp0.69) were fed to crayfish for 8 weeks. Growth parameters, muscle proximate composition, texture, histology, related gene expression, and intestinal microbiota were measur...

Filter-feeding shellfish primarily rely on suspended particles in the surrounding waters for nourishment. This study aims to understand the potential food sources for Chlamys farreri in the Yellow Sea off Long Island, Shandong Province, China, by comparing the phytoplankton composition in the aquaculture waters with the stomach contents of the scallops. The abundance of dominant species in the aquaculture waters exhibited sign...

An 8-week rearing trial was designed to estimate the dietary protein requirement and evaluate the effects of dietary protein on growth performance, plasma parameters, and digestive enzyme activities of blunt snout bream at two growth stages. Six practical diets were prepared to feed two sizes of fish (larger fish: initial weight of 153.69 ± 0.85 g; smaller fish: initial weight of 40.89 ± 0.28 g) with graded protein levels (26%...

In order to study the muscle quality of different crustaceans, we aim to provide a comprehensive assessment of their muscle quality characteristics as a theoretical reference. In this work, seven major species of farmed and consumer crustaceans were selected, including crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii), pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon)...