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Rearing European Eel (Anguilla anguilla) Elvers in a Biofloc System

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Sustainable strategies for improving blue food economies are essential in order to design a new approach to transitioning towards more responsible, comprehensive, exploitable production and consumption models that have a positive impact on society and the environment. Among different...

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Autores principales: Vinatea, Luis, Carbó, Ricard, Andree, Karl B., Gisbert, Enric, Estévez, Alicia
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37893957
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13203234
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author Vinatea, Luis
Carbó, Ricard
Andree, Karl B.
Gisbert, Enric
Estévez, Alicia
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Carbó, Ricard
Andree, Karl B.
Gisbert, Enric
Estévez, Alicia
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: Sustainable strategies for improving blue food economies are essential in order to design a new approach to transitioning towards more responsible, comprehensive, exploitable production and consumption models that have a positive impact on society and the environment. Among different fish farming systems, biofloc technology (BFT) is considered one of the most cost-effective, sustainable, and environmentally friendly farming systems due to its zero-water exchange and improvement of feed conversion ratio to the dietary contribution of bioflocs growing in the system, which contribute to the nutrition of the farmed aquatic animal. Thus, a two-month trial was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of rearing European eel (Anguilla anguilla) elvers, a species that is generally farmed in recirculation aquaculture systems, using BFT. ABSTRACT: European eel (Anguilla anguilla) elvers (initial body weight (BW) = 3 g) were raised in triplicate for 60 days in a biofloc system (BFT) at 21 °C. Data from the current first study evaluating this farming technology indicated that European eel elvers adapted well to BFT systems as data on growth performance (specific growth rate = 1.48% ± 0.13 BW/day and FCR = 1.05 ± 0.09) indicated, with production costs using BFT being lower than conventional RAS units. The most critical issues associated with this aquaculture system were the maintenance of the biofloc in tanks by the regular addition of refined sugar (46% C) to keep a relationship for C:N of 20:1, and the prevention of emergence of opportunistic pathogens like the monogenean Pseudodactylogyrus sp. The overall results of this study in terms of elvers’ performance and quality and the composition of the biofloc material and its microbial composition indicated that BFT, which is considered to be one of the most cost-effective, sustainable, and environmentally friendly farming systems due to its zero water exchange and improvement of feed conversion ratio by the dietary contribution of bioflocs, may be satisfactorily used for farming European eels elvers at a density of 2 kg/m(3). However, further studies are needed to test this technology with older eel stages.
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spelling pubmed-106037472023-10-28 Rearing European Eel (Anguilla anguilla) Elvers in a Biofloc System Vinatea, Luis Carbó, Ricard Andree, Karl B. Gisbert, Enric Estévez, Alicia Animals (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: Sustainable strategies for improving blue food economies are essential in order to design a new approach to transitioning towards more responsible, comprehensive, exploitable production and consumption models that have a positive impact on society and the environment. Among different fish farming systems, biofloc technology (BFT) is considered one of the most cost-effective, sustainable, and environmentally friendly farming systems due to its zero-water exchange and improvement of feed conversion ratio to the dietary contribution of bioflocs growing in the system, which contribute to the nutrition of the farmed aquatic animal. Thus, a two-month trial was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of rearing European eel (Anguilla anguilla) elvers, a species that is generally farmed in recirculation aquaculture systems, using BFT. ABSTRACT: European eel (Anguilla anguilla) elvers (initial body weight (BW) = 3 g) were raised in triplicate for 60 days in a biofloc system (BFT) at 21 °C. Data from the current first study evaluating this farming technology indicated that European eel elvers adapted well to BFT systems as data on growth performance (specific growth rate = 1.48% ± 0.13 BW/day and FCR = 1.05 ± 0.09) indicated, with production costs using BFT being lower than conventional RAS units. The most critical issues associated with this aquaculture system were the maintenance of the biofloc in tanks by the regular addition of refined sugar (46% C) to keep a relationship for C:N of 20:1, and the prevention of emergence of opportunistic pathogens like the monogenean Pseudodactylogyrus sp. The overall results of this study in terms of elvers’ performance and quality and the composition of the biofloc material and its microbial composition indicated that BFT, which is considered to be one of the most cost-effective, sustainable, and environmentally friendly farming systems due to its zero water exchange and improvement of feed conversion ratio by the dietary contribution of bioflocs, may be satisfactorily used for farming European eels elvers at a density of 2 kg/m(3). However, further studies are needed to test this technology with older eel stages. MDPI 2023-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10603747/ /pubmed/37893957 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13203234 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603747/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37893957
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13203234
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