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Communicating risks and benefits from fish consumption: impact on Belgian consumersU+2019 perception and intention to eat fish Ghent University
Communicating about the health effects of fish and seafood may potentially result in a conflict situation: increasing intake is desirable because of health and nutritional benefits, but higher consumption may also lead to an increased intake of potentially harmful environmental contaminants. In order to anticipate the communication challenge this conflict may pose, the research presented here aimed to assess the impact of risk/benefit ...
Spatio-temporal analysis of fish behaviour : lessons learnt to stimulate fish passage Ghent University
Obstacles like weirs, watermills and locks are barriers for migratory fish. The fact that specific fish species cannot reach their optimal spawning habitat can have severe consequences for the survival of these species. While numerous fish passage types have been designed to solve this problem, these are sometimes not efficient. More insight into fish behavior is needed to improve fish pass efficiency, and acoustic telemetry allows such detailed ...
Heat shock proteins (chaperones) in fish and shellfish and their potential role in relation to fish health: a review Ghent University
Fish spawning migration, Young-of-the-Year (YOY) fish survival, and food web modeling in Lake Tana, Ethiopia Hasselt University
Under the current anthropogenic pressures on the ecosystem, the Lake Tana fish species suffer from pollution, habitat destruction, and excessive fishing. It is crucial to develop an effective conservation and management strategy for the lake and its tributary rivers. This requires an understanding of the feeding and reproductive ecology of the fish taxa of concern, namely the species belonging to the genus Labeobarbus, which includes an endemic ...
Factors affecting fish yield and profit in fish pen culture in flooded ricefields KU Leuven
In recent years, a rotational system consisting of two rice crops followed by a fish pen culture during the monsoon flood period was adopted in parts of the flood-prone region of the Mekong Delta. In this paper, we use the survey data from 51 fish pen farmers at Co Do and Vinh Thanh district, Can Tho City, to investigate the factors affecting fish yield and profit in such fish pen culture system. The net yield of all stocked fish varies from 377 ...
Ascaridoids in commercial fish : occurrence, intensity and localization in whole fish and fillets destined for the Belgian market Ghent University
Anisakidae and Raphidascaridae are marine nematodes present in a wide range of fish hosts, which may cause gastro-intestinal complaints and/or allergy in human, in addition to economic losses for the industry. Data regarding the presence of these parasites in fish for the Belgian market is currently missing; therefore, our aim was to investigate the presence and intensity of ascaridoids in a wide range of commercially fish species. A total of ...