where he also coordinates a research group in the Graduate Program focusing on ecology and fish biology, and aquaculture research Furthermore, Dr. Carvalho teaches Cell Biology for undergraduate courses. He is national and international referee of scientific journals. This extensive research activity has resulted in scientific publications, including scientific articles, reports and book chapters in the field of Inland Fishery Resources, focusing on topics such as freshwater fish breeding, fish fauna of reservoirs, fish parasitology, limnology, fish restocking, and environmental impacts on inland aquatic environments.
PrefaceAquaculture is a modality of food production that has been experiencing continuous expansion in many countries worldwide. This expansion brings the challenge of developing reliable tools for disease control, to assure high productivity of healthy seafood. The increase of farmed fish production raises the issue of achieving a sustainable and environmental friendly aquaculture. The adoption of best management practices in the whole production chain, based on "state of the art" scientific knowledge, is the key for sustainable health management. In this book, experts from several countries bring updated information about some of the main health issues that currently affects aquaculture. Topics concerning pathogens, antibiotics, probiotics, cell biology, ecological interactions, and safety are included in the six sections of this book.The first section is entitled as "Parasitic diseases", addressing issues and impacts of parasites upon aquaculture. The first chapter is the "Transmission biology of the myxozoa", which explains about the diseases that some myxozoans cause in marine and freshwater fish, and how they can be a problem for aquaculture and fishery industries. It also elucidates the life cycle of myxozoans, that involves invertebrates, and a vertebrate host that is typically a fish. However, there are no commercially available chemotherapeutants and vaccines to treat myxozoan infections. This review summarizes the current knowledge on the transmission biology of myxozoans, which would be useful for designing management strategies for related diseases. The second chapter is "Metazoan parasites of cultured European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax (Linneaus 1758) from Corsica". It is a study relating that parasitic infections and associated diseases have emerged in aquaculture systems in many regions of Europe, resulting in significant economical losses. This study points out that wild fish are believed to be the primary reservoirs of parasite infection for fish farmed in cages, and environmental conditions in culture systems may favor disease transmission, threatening production activity. In this sense, it is considered that animals reared in sea-cages are exposed to a large number of parasitic agents. The third chapter is "Parasitic diseases in cultured marine fish in Northwest Mexico". This chapter summarizes the main parasitic diseases that affect marine fish species with aquaculture poten...