Examination of water quality changes during transportation of different fish

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Event Abstract Back to Event Examination of water quality changes during transportation of different fish Árpád Hegyi1*, Istvan Nemeth2, Mark Kollo2, Tamas Horvath3, Gyorgy Pilaszy3, Laszlo Bacsa3 and Bela Urbanyi1 1 Szent Istvan University, Department of Aquaculture, Hungary 2 Tógazda Fisheries LTD., Hungary 3 BME VIKING Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Research and Development Nonprofit Private Limited Company, Hungary Introduction The growth of population is increasing intensively (7.3 billion people in 2015) and it generates growing importance of fish farming. Primarily, fish meat could provide protein requirements for population so more and more attention must be paid to each sections of farming, for example fish transportation. A badly organized transportation technology can significantly reduce high quality stocks which were produced over several years. Deterioration of transport may occur on each fish distinctly. Bacterial or fungal diseases appear either immediately or days later. During our work, changes in several freshwater (peaceful or predator) fish species (of different ages) were monitored and analyzed during transport. There were two reasons why we examined the main physical and chemical parameters of the water. On one hand, we were curious to know how much the individuals exposed to heavy loads, which we tried to identify with some stress tests. On the other hand, we would develop a national water carrier monitoring system for the practice. Materials and methods Delivery technologies (foil sack and transport tankers) used in practice was applied in the experiment of the study in a real road transport. The physical and chemical data were monitored and checked with the use of multiparameter instruments and photometrial tests. Physiological and stress tests were analyzed from blood plasma of each fish, primarily plasma glucose determination was used. Results After analysis of examined fish species and each ages, it is obvious that either short or long delivery times we choose physical and chemical properties of the transport water would change dramatically, even adequate oxygen balance was ensured. Values of individuals exposed to stress were more significant compared to baseline values. Conclusion We could define concrete changes in key parameters of the transport water with the number of realtime transport implementation which is a good help to develop a new water monitoring system. Also, our results could help to clarify a number of practical issues (eg. what should be the starting water, lake water or well water etc). In the possession of concrete results, intervention modes can be specified and refined. Acknowledgements Research was supported by the GOP-1.1.1-11-2012-0290 „Transport of live fish and culture technology research project complex development of market-oriented” and 8526-5/2014/TUDPOL „Ministry of Human Capacities” projects Keywords: Fish transport, Water Quality, fish physiology, Online Systems, common carp Conference: XV European Congress of Ichthyology, Porto, Portugal, 7 Sep - 11 Sep, 2015. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Physiology, Behavior and Toxicology Citation: Hegyi Á, Nemeth I, Kollo M, Horvath T, Pilaszy G, Bacsa L and Urbanyi B (2015). Examination of water quality changes during transportation of different fish. Front. Mar. Sci. Conference Abstract: XV European Congress of Ichthyology. doi: 10.3389/conf.FMARS.2015.03.00258 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. 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