The stress of four commercial farming practices, feeding, counting, grading and harvesting, in farmed rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 179-192

  Dunlop, R A ^a   Laming, P R ^a   Smith, T E ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Fish farming; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Rainbow trout; Stress

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SALMONID CULTURE; STRESS;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 5444237229     PISSN: 10236244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10236240400006133     Document Type: Article

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