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Effects of hypoxia on growth and metabolism of juvenile turbot
Pichavant, K.; Person-Le-Ruyet, J.; Le Bayon, N.; Sévère, A.; Le Roux, A.; Quéméner, L.; Maxime, V.; Nonnotte, G.; Boeuf, G. (2000). Effects of hypoxia on growth and metabolism of juvenile turbot. Aquaculture 188: 103-114
In: Aquaculture. Elsevier: Amsterdam; London; New York; Oxford; Tokyo. ISSN 0044-8486; e-ISSN 1873-5622, more
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  • Pichavant, K.
  • Person-Le-Ruyet, J.
  • Le Bayon, N.
  • Sévère, A.
  • Le Roux, A.
  • Quéméner, L.
  • Maxime, V.
  • Nonnotte, G.
  • Boeuf, G., more

Abstract
    The effects of hypoxia on growth, feed efficiency, nitrogen excretion, oxygen consumption and metabolism of juvenile turbot (120 g) were studied in a 45-day experiment carried out in sea water at 17.0 ± 0.5°C and 34.5 ppt salinity. Fish were fed to satiation at O2-concentrations of 3.5 ± 0.3, 5.0 ± 0.3 mg l-1 (hypoxia) and 7.2 ± 0.3 mg l-1 (normoxia). Both feed intake FI and growth were significantly lower under hypoxia than under normoxia, with no significant differences being observed between 3.5 and 5.0 mg O2 l-1. During the first 2 weeks of the experiment, FI was halved under hypoxic conditions, and there were large differences among treatments in feed conversion ratio (FCR), i.e., it was 3.2, 1.5, and 0.9 in turbot exposed to 3.5, 5.0, and 7.2 mg O2l-1, respectively. Thereafter, FCR was not significantly affected by O2-concentration. Nitrogen excretion and oxygen consumption of feeding fish were significantly higher under normoxia than under hypoxia, but following 7 days of feed deprivation oxygen consumption was similar under normoxia and hypoxia. Plasma osmolarity, ionic balance, and acid-base status were not affected by the two hypoxic conditions tested. Overall, our results indicate that turbot have some capacity to adapt to relatively low ambient O2-concentrations.

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