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Factors affecting outbreaks of epizootic ulcerative syndrome in farmed fish in Bangladesh *
Author(s) -
AHMED M.,
RAB M. A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of fish diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-2761
pISSN - 0140-7775
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2761.1995.tb00301.x
Subject(s) - stocking , biology , oreochromis , nile tilapia , outbreak , fishery , monoculture , tilapia , veterinary medicine , epizootic , fish farming , fish <actinopterygii> , aquaculture , ecology , virology , medicine
. Among 257 Bangladesh fish ponds investigated, 46% were affected by epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) either fully or partially. Thai silver barb, Puntius gonionotus (Bleeker), culture ponds were worst affected (64%) by EUS, while all Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.), monoculture ponds remained unaffected. Stocking of silver barb for culture, use of piscicides as means of moving predators or unwanted species prior to stocking of cultured species, and culture of fish in previously derelict ponds are factors which significantly affected the probability of occurrence of EUS. Choice of species other than silver barb and use of lime during the post‐stocking period significantly affected the probability of pond stocks being less adversely affected by EUS.