Wild Fish Health Monitoring
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Necropsy-based Wild Fish Health Assessment
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2018
The health of wild fishes can be used as an indicator of aquatic ecosystem health. Necropsy-based fish health assessments provide documentation of visible lesions or abnormalities, data used to calculate condition indices as well as the opportunity to collect tissues for microscopic evaluation, gene expression and other more in-depth analyses.
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Basic Methods for the Study of Reproductive Ecology of Fish in Aquaria
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2017
A series of basic methods to enable the study of the reproductive ecology of fish kept in aquaria are described. These are useful protocols for collecting fish using SCUBA, transporting live fish, and observing the reproductive behavior of wild-caught fish kept in aquaria.
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Osmoregulation in Fishes
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2019
When cells are placed in a hypotonic (low-salt) fluid, they can swell and burst. Meanwhile, cells in a hypertonic solution—with a higher salt concentration—can shrivel and die. How do fish cells avoid these gruesome fates in hypotonic freshwater or hypertonic seawater environments? Fish employ osmoregulatory strategies to balance bodily levels of water and dissolved ions (i.e., solutes), such as sodium and chloride. Imagine two solutions separated by a membrane that is permeable to water.
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Investigating the Potential of Singly Curved Thin Piezoelectric Transducers for Energy Harvesting and Structural Health Monitoring
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2025
Here, we experimentally compare singly curved and straight piezoelectric transducers embedded in reinforced concrete structures for energy harvesting and structural health monitoring by evaluating their open-circuit voltage, power generation, power storage, and damage detection capability. Curved transducers have surpassed the straight ones, offering better performance for real-world applications.
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Swimming Performance Assessment in Fishes
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2011
The lives of the majority of fish are predicated on swimming. This protocol describes techniques for capturing a range of swimming modes available to individual and schooling fish, and includes metrics associated with swimming physiology and behaviour.
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Representative sampling helps relate observed disease, injury, or physiological condition to the broader free-ranging population rather than to an unusual individual or isolated location. Because fish health can vary across environments, sampling provides a more reliable basis for identifying patterns. This strengthens environmental assessments and prevents population numbers from being the only indicator of ecosystem condition.
Behavioral changes and visible abnormalities provide early, field-based indications that fish may be experiencing disease, injury, parasites, lesions, or environmental stress. These observations can guide the selection of tissues and other samples for laboratory analysis. Used together, field signs and laboratory findings create a broader assessment than either visual inspection or numerical population data alone.
Each analysis examines a different part of the fish–environment relationship. Pathogen testing can provide evidence associated with disease, tissue examination can reveal internal condition, biomarkers can indicate physiological stress, and water-quality measurements describe surrounding environmental conditions. Combining these data helps connect fish health findings with potential pollution, habitat degradation, or other ecosystem pressures.
Disease, injury, physiological stress, parasites, lesions, or altered behavior may appear before changes become evident in overall population numbers. Monitoring these indicators can therefore provide an early warning of pollution, habitat degradation, disease outbreaks, or related threats. Detecting such signals sooner gives environmental researchers and fisheries managers information for evaluating emerging ecosystem concerns.
A typical assessment begins with representative field sampling, followed by observations of behavior and external abnormalities. Investigators then examine fish for parasites or lesions and collect measurements for laboratory analysis of tissues, pathogens, and biomarkers. Water-quality data are considered alongside fish findings. Interpreting these combined results supports evaluation of disease, injury, stress, and environmental conditions.
The approach is useful when environmental researchers or fisheries managers need to investigate disease outbreaks, pollution effects, habitat degradation, or other threats affecting free-ranging fish. It also supports conservation decisions by adding health information to population assessments. Repeated monitoring can show how ecosystem health changes over time and help evaluate whether concerns persist or emerge.
The resulting evidence can identify health problems that population counts alone may miss and can connect observed conditions with broader environmental threats. Findings support early warning, guide conservation decisions, and strengthen assessments of ecosystem health over time. Because the approach combines field observations, laboratory results, and water-quality measurements, it provides multiple lines of evidence for fisheries management.