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Journal Title:
Aquaculture
Personal Author:
Frank, Laura N. ; Stuart, Kevin ; Skelton, Zachary ; Drawbridge, Mark ; Hyde, John R. ; ... More +
Frank, Laura N. ; Stuart, Kevin ; Skelton, Zachary ; Drawbridge, Mark ; Hyde, John R. ; Lowery, Mary Sue ; Wegner, Nicholas C. Less -
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NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SWFSC (Southwest Fisheries Science Center)
NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SWFSC (Southwest Fisheries Science Center) Less -
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Five cohorts of cultured California Yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis) were used in exercise training experiments to assess the duration of exercise necessary to induce a positive growth and fitness response, quantify the variability and replicability of this response between cohorts, and track the longevity (persistence) of exercise-induced benefits following removal from the exercise stimulus. Custom-designed raceways were used to continuously exercise juvenile yellowtail at their optimal swimming speed for two, three, or four weeks following which several fitness metrics including measures of somatic growth, white muscle fiber area, metabolic rate, and feed conversion were tracked for up to 20 weeks post exercise in comparison to non-exercised controls. Within a cohort, the longest duration of exercise (4 weeks) generally had the largest and longest-lasting impact on growth, followed by the 3-week, and then the 2-week exercise regimes. However, all exercise treatments showed substantial variability in the magnitude and longevity of the response between cohorts. For example, the positive growth response (increase in mass above that of controls) of the 4-week swimming group ranged from 9.8% to 37.8% between cohorts. This variability in the exercise response between cohorts is similar in magnitude to that associated with other experimentally manipulated variables in the exercise regimes of previous studies, and thus highlights the need for additional species-specific experiments to quantify replicability of positive exercise results. In addition, the longevity of exercise-induced benefits was highly variable between cohorts and generally not retained for prolonged periods post exercise. Most notably, the exercise-induced growth response which may result from muscle hypertrophy (increase in white muscle fiber size) during exercise, subsided within weeks. Taken together, these results indicate that exercise can play an important role in the growth and fitness of S. dorsalis and other species, however the duration of the exercise, as well as the timing of exercise in the rearing process likely have important implications for optimizing exercise training for aquaculture enhancement.
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Aquaculture California Yellowtail
Source:
Aquaculture, 540
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.736684
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