Mediterranean Sea heatwaves jeopardize greater amberjack's (Seriola dumerili) aquaculture productivity through impacts on the fish microbiota.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is dramatically increasing the frequency and severity of marine heatwaves (MHWs) in the Mediterranean basin, strongly affecting marine food production systems. However, how it will shape the ecology of aquaculture systems, and the cascading effects on productivity, is still a major knowledge gap. The present work aims to increase our understanding of future impacts, caused by raising water temperatures, on the interaction between water and fish microbiotas, and consequential effects upon fish growth. Thus, the bacterial communities present in the water tanks, and mucosal tissues (skin, gills and gut), of greater amberjack farmed in recirculatory aquaculture systems (RAS), at three different temperatures (24, 29 and 33 °C), were characterized in a longitudinal study. The grea

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Cueto P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10125963 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature