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Optimizing Coral Farming: A Comparative Analysis of Nursery Designs for Acropora aspera, Acropora muricata, and Montipora digitata in Anantara Lagoon, Maldives

Maldivian coral reefs have undergone a substantial degradation due to a combination of anthropogenic pressure and global climate change. In response to the 2016 coral bleaching event, Anantara Dhigu, Anantara Veli, and Naladhu Private Island launched the Holistic Approach to Reef Protection (H... (21 Oct., 2024)

Sustainable Management of Northeastern Madagascar Halieutic Resources

This present study analyses the management of fishery resources to ensure their sustainability and rational exploitation in fishing villages of the Loky-Manambato marine protected area (LM-MPA), which are located in Vohemar district and SAVA region of the northeastern coast of Madagascar. Base... (15 Jul., 2024)

Muscular Coloration Diversity and Microsatellite Genetic Differentiation for the Clam Paphia amabilis (Philippi, 1847)

Paphia amabilis is an important fishery shellfish widely distributing along Southeast Asia coast. The muscles of its foot and siphons are commonly colored bright red-orange due to the presence of C37 skeletal carotenoids. However, 10.5%-18.6% of yellow-muscled indivi... (26 Feb., 2021)

Temporal Variations of Micro Benthic Assemblage in the Sangu River Estuary, Bangladesh

Temporal distribution of shellfish assemblages, together with water quality data, was conducted in the Sangu river estuary of Bangladesh to assess shellfish's diversity index during winter, pre-monsoon, and monsoon and post-monsoon periods. A total of 15 species of shellfish belonging to ... (30 Oct., 2020)

Potential Bioactive Compound Seaweed Halimeda micronesica and Halimeda macroloba as Antioxidant and Phytochemical Screening of Active Seaweed Extracts from Maspari Island

The species H. micronesica and H. macroloba are a group of green seaweed (Chlorophyta) which are found in the waters of Pulau Maspari. The purposes of this study was to analyze the activity of antioxidant and phytochemicals compounds of the active extract of seaweed H. micronesica ... (16 Oct., 2020)

Cultivation of Seaweed E.spinosum in Open Waters Using Bags Methods Around Pahawang Island Waters, South Lampung

Seaweed cultivation in Pahawang Island waters have a serious problem like predators from Baronang fish and sea turtle, strong current and big waves also give big impact for seaweed cultivation at there. Bag nets is one of method who can be a solution for that problems. The aim of this research... (18 Sep., 2020)

Efficacy of Evaluation of Gut Probiotics against White Gut and White Feces Disease in Litopenaeus vannamei Shrimp Aquaculture Systems in Two Different Geographical Regions of Andhra Pradesh

The aim of the study is to investigate the efficacy of gut probiotics in shrimp aquaculture system for the prevention of white gut (WG) and white feces (WF) disease in Litopenaeus vannamei . The study was executed in infected L. vannamei culture ponds in Varadarajapuram and Cheyyeru Gunnepa... (25 Sep., 2020)

Development of Microsatellite Markers for the Hermatypic Coral Porites lutea

By mining the EST and genomic microsatellite sequence resources of Porites species in GenBank, and using interspecific amplification and resequencing, we developed 20 microsatellite markers for the stony coral Porites lutea , meanwhile, validated and excluded 43 microsatellite markers of it... (12 May, 2020)

Cloning and Expression Analysis of Cdc25 Gene of Sipunculus nudus in Oocytes

Cell division cycle 25 (Cdc25) is an important dual specificity phosphatase, which plays an important role in regulating the process of oocyte meiosis and embryo development. In this study, the full-length cDNA of Sn-Cdc25 was cloned from S. nudus using RACE technology. The results show th... (22 Apr., 2020)

Total Hydrocarbon and Heavy Metal Concentrations in Body Parts of Fiddler Crab (Uca tangeri) (Ocipodidae) in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

This study is based on the hypothesis that the burrowing habit of fiddler crabs in polluted environment will predispose them to heavy metal contamination. The study was carried out in Eagle Island, a mangrove community. Thirty fiddler crabs ( Uca tangeri ) were captured by hand and butchered ... (30 Apr., 2020)

Severe Case of Lordosis-Kyphosis-Ankylosis in Mullus barbatus Linnaeus, 1758 (Teleostei: Mullidae) Collected from the Northern Aegean Sea, Turkey

This study aimed to identify skeletal deformities in Mullus barbatus collected from a natural population from northern the Aegean Sea, Turkey. Lordosis, kyphosis, and ankylosis were detected. Assessment of abnormality in the studied specimen was carried out by the morphological diagnosis and... (23 Mar., 2018)

Microbial Quality Assessment of Open Sun and Solar Tent Dried Barbus paludinosus in Lake Chilwa Basin

This study assessed the effects of two processing methods; open sun drying and solar tent drying on microbial quality of Barbus paludinosus , (straight fin barb locally known as Matemba), a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae that supports a significant fishery sector in Malaw... (02 Mar., 2018)

New Strategy toward Sustainable Livelihoods in Coastal Fisheries-How Japanese Experiences Could Be Applied to Southeast Asia?

Coastal resource management, community empowerment and socio economic development are the cornerstones for uplifting the lives of coastal area inhabitants. Japan is one of country who succeed to empowered economy of coastal community by diversify coastal and fisheries livelihoods. This study a... (09 Feb., 2018)

Discerning Coastal Ecotourism in Bira Island

The Ministry of Tourism has created a 10-priority destination program in Indonesia. Pulau Seribu is one of the 10 destinations. Meanwhile, Bira Island is located in the Thousand Islands. To improve the performance of the Island, it is also necessary to increase the island of Bira. This mixed m... (29 Jan., 2018)

Use of the Mediterranean Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 from Sinop Coasts of the Black Sea as Bio-monitor

The Zn, Cu, Pb, Cd and Hg levels in the edible parts of Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis picked up from Sinop seashore of the Black Sea have been evaluated by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer for biomonitoring heavy metal environmental pollution in 2014. Cu and... (19 Jan., 2018)

Some Osteological Studies of Coptodon zillii (Gervais 1848) and Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner 1864) Collected Shatt al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq

This paper presents the results of a comparative study of the vertebral column regionalization of Coptodon zillii and Oreochromis aureus of the fish family Cichlidae. Osteological features that may prove valuable for taxonomic indications are defined, and on the basis of the material handl... (12 Jan., 2018)

Gracilaria sp Seaweed Cultivation with Net Floating Method in Traditional Shrimp Pond in the Dungun River of Marga Sungsang Village of Banyuasin District, South Sumatera

South Sumatera has a very large shrimp pond, most of them were abandoned and untreated. The caused is the diseases such as white spot resulted in crop failure. It requires the effort in order to optimize and utilize the pond area. One of them by cultivating the Gracilaria sp seaweed which ha... (05 Jan., 2018)

Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Zooplanktons from Iraqi National Waters

Samples of zooplankton's were collected by special net from 8 sites within Iraqi national waters represented by stations: 1- Shatt Al-Basrah cannal, 2- Khour Al-Zubair, 3- Buoy 29, 4-Buoy 13, 5-Buoy 5, 6-Al-Musab, 7- Ras Al-Bisha, and 8-Al-Fao. Samplings were conducted during the period Ju... (12 Jan., 2018)

Variation of the Structure of the Intertidal Fish Community of the Pacific Coast of Baja California Sur, México

The intertidal zone is a transition zone between terrestrial and coastal systems. During low tide, rocky pools are exposed to air for several hours throughout the day, and environmental conditions such as temperature and salinity are highly variable. There are not many studies of fish communit... (29 Dec., 2017)

Morphometric and Meristic Characters of Two Cichlids, Coptodon zillii and Oreochromis aureus Collected from Shatt al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq

Thirteen morphometric and seven meristic characters of the cichlids species Coptodon zillii and Oreochromis aureus were studied from three localities, Qurna, Hartha, Abu Al-Khaseeb, on Shatt al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq. Samples revealed no significant differences between genders. Values of... (05 Jan., 2018)