A1 Journal article (refereed)
Rearing background and exposure environment together explain higher survival of aquaculture fish during a bacterial outbreak (2019)
Räihä, V., Sundberg, L.-R., Ashrafi, R., Hyvärinen, P., & Karvonen, A. (2019). Rearing background and exposure environment together explain higher survival of aquaculture fish during a bacterial outbreak. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(7), 1741-1750. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13393
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All authors or editors: Räihä, Ville; Sundberg, Lotta-Riina; Ashrafi, Roghaieh; Hyvärinen, Pekka; Karvonen, Anssi
Journal or series: Journal of Applied Ecology
ISSN: 0021-8901
eISSN: 1365-2664
Publication year: 2019
Volume: 56
Issue number: 7
Pages range: 1741-1750
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13393
Research data link: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nd637r5
Publication open access: Not open
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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/65123
Abstract
2.We studied whether enriched rearing affected infection of an important fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare in young Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and sea‐migrating brown trout (Salmo trutta). First, we used natural bacterial exposures and multiple fish populations in a common garden experiment to address the role of host genetic background in effects of enriched rearing. Second, fish from standard and enriched rearing were experimentally exposed to controlled bacterial doses in standard and enriched environments in a full factorial design to explore the relative roles of rearing background and environment of exposure on survival of fish.
3.Enriched rearing significantly increased survival of fish during the natural bacterial outbreak. This effect was also fairly consistent and observed in eight of the ten fish populations. In the controlled exposure, fish exposed in enriched environment had higher survival regardless of their rearing background, suggesting a stronger impact of the environment on the disease progression. Additionally, the survival in the enriched environment was the highest among the fish of enriched rearing background, supporting the idea of their higher resistance.
4.Synthesis and applications. Our study suggests that the enhanced survival of fish in enriched rearing is a result of a combined effect of the environment and improved fish condition and, to a lesser degree, from host genetic background. This has important implications for when and how environmental enrichment should be applied. Overall, these results indicate that environmental enrichment has the potential to improve survival of fish during parasitic epidemics and thus reduce use of antibiotics in aquaculture.
Keywords: antibiotics; Atlantic salmon; aquaculture; genetic variation; fish culture; Salmoniformes; trout; fish diseases; infections; bacteria; survival; environmental factors
Free keywords: brown trout; disease epidemiology; enriched rearing; flavobacterium columnare
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Reporting Year: 2019
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