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Liver colour scoring index, carotenoids and lipid content assessment as a proxy for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) health and welfare condition

Ensuring lumpfish health and welfare in salmon farms is vital to reduce the high mortality rates reported and to guarantee a high delousing efficiency. Recent observations of farmed lumpfish livers have shown colours ranging from pale (colours 1 and 2), through bright orange (colours 3 and 4), to da...

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Autores principales: Eliasen, Kirstin, Patursson, Esbern J., McAdam, Bruce J., Pino, Enrique, Morro, Bernat, Betancor, Monica, Baily, Johanna, Rey, Sonia
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32488000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65535-7
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author Eliasen, Kirstin
Patursson, Esbern J.
McAdam, Bruce J.
Pino, Enrique
Morro, Bernat
Betancor, Monica
Baily, Johanna
Rey, Sonia
author_facet Eliasen, Kirstin
Patursson, Esbern J.
McAdam, Bruce J.
Pino, Enrique
Morro, Bernat
Betancor, Monica
Baily, Johanna
Rey, Sonia
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description Ensuring lumpfish health and welfare in salmon farms is vital to reduce the high mortality rates reported and to guarantee a high delousing efficiency. Recent observations of farmed lumpfish livers have shown colours ranging from pale (colours 1 and 2), through bright orange (colours 3 and 4), to dark reddish-brown (colours 5 and 6), some of which may be related to welfare condition. To characterize the status of lumpfish deployed in four Faroese salmon farms, several welfare indicators were assessed: a weight-length relationship, scoring of external physical damage, and after dissection, stomach content and liver colour scoring. Liver samples were weighed, stored and analysed for lipid content, lipid classes, total pigments, fatty acid profile and histopathology to explain the differences between the mentioned liver colours. Bright orange livers, liver colours 3 and 4, were related to increased levels of carotenoid pigments rather than levels of lipids and appear to reflect good fish welfare. However, dark reddish-brown colours, liver colours 5 and 6, were associated with very low levels of triacyl glycerides in the liver, indicating use of lipid reserves and poor welfare condition. Histopathology confirmed that the dark reddish-brown livers, liver colours 5 and 6, formed a distinct group. Thus, liver colour was shown to be a good welfare indicator and should be monitored in farms.
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spelling pubmed-72655352020-06-05 Liver colour scoring index, carotenoids and lipid content assessment as a proxy for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) health and welfare condition Eliasen, Kirstin Patursson, Esbern J. McAdam, Bruce J. Pino, Enrique Morro, Bernat Betancor, Monica Baily, Johanna Rey, Sonia Sci Rep Article Ensuring lumpfish health and welfare in salmon farms is vital to reduce the high mortality rates reported and to guarantee a high delousing efficiency. Recent observations of farmed lumpfish livers have shown colours ranging from pale (colours 1 and 2), through bright orange (colours 3 and 4), to dark reddish-brown (colours 5 and 6), some of which may be related to welfare condition. To characterize the status of lumpfish deployed in four Faroese salmon farms, several welfare indicators were assessed: a weight-length relationship, scoring of external physical damage, and after dissection, stomach content and liver colour scoring. Liver samples were weighed, stored and analysed for lipid content, lipid classes, total pigments, fatty acid profile and histopathology to explain the differences between the mentioned liver colours. Bright orange livers, liver colours 3 and 4, were related to increased levels of carotenoid pigments rather than levels of lipids and appear to reflect good fish welfare. However, dark reddish-brown colours, liver colours 5 and 6, were associated with very low levels of triacyl glycerides in the liver, indicating use of lipid reserves and poor welfare condition. Histopathology confirmed that the dark reddish-brown livers, liver colours 5 and 6, formed a distinct group. Thus, liver colour was shown to be a good welfare indicator and should be monitored in farms. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7265535/ /pubmed/32488000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65535-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Eliasen, Kirstin
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Pino, Enrique
Morro, Bernat
Betancor, Monica
Baily, Johanna
Rey, Sonia
Liver colour scoring index, carotenoids and lipid content assessment as a proxy for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) health and welfare condition
title Liver colour scoring index, carotenoids and lipid content assessment as a proxy for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) health and welfare condition
title_full Liver colour scoring index, carotenoids and lipid content assessment as a proxy for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) health and welfare condition
title_fullStr Liver colour scoring index, carotenoids and lipid content assessment as a proxy for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) health and welfare condition
title_full_unstemmed Liver colour scoring index, carotenoids and lipid content assessment as a proxy for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) health and welfare condition
title_short Liver colour scoring index, carotenoids and lipid content assessment as a proxy for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) health and welfare condition
title_sort liver colour scoring index, carotenoids and lipid content assessment as a proxy for lumpfish (cyclopterus lumpus l.) health and welfare condition
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7265535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32488000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65535-7
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