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March 6 - 10, 2025

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Add To Calendar 08/03/2025 14:30:0008/03/2025 14:50:00America/ChicagoAquaculture 2025IMPACT OF PHYTOCHEMICAL SUPPLEMENTS ON THE MODULATION OF STRESS FACTORS IN FISH CULTURED IN FARMING CONDITIONSGalerie 6The World Aquaculture Societyjohnc@was.orgfalseDD/MM/YYYYanrl65yqlzh3g1q0dme13067

IMPACT OF PHYTOCHEMICAL SUPPLEMENTS ON THE MODULATION OF STRESS FACTORS IN FISH CULTURED IN FARMING CONDITIONS

Shah Sumaiya Khaled*, Elena Deng and Ahmed Mustafa

*Presenting Author

 

Department of Biological Science

Purdue University Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805

Email: mustafaa@pfw.edu

 



The constant growing demand for food supply to sustain the human population and its everlasting conflict with the supply in demand illustrates the necessity of an alternate option for nutrition supply which has been recently recognized through the usage of farming fish. Major nutrition supplements for meat have been mostly found through the common farming fish including Tilapia, Bass and Catfish. These fish are being commercially mass produced causing the fish to undergo several stress factors including crowding, handling, transfer, diseases, and treatment with chemicals. These stress factors are causing lower quality meat production in fish by affecting their growth, blood glucose levels, blood cortisol levels and other physiological disturbances. To alleviate the effects of stress in these fish, we are trying to imply natural methods for stress modulation using natural phytochemicals and nutraceuticals which are found in plants and are known for their therapeutic effects. For this experiment, the fish will be distributed into four groups of nutritional implementations: a) the control feed with no implied stress (CCF), b) feed provided with phytochemicals with no induced stress (CP), c) commercial feed with stress induced by cortisol (SCF), d) stress induced through cortisol and phytochemical supplements (SP). For over an 8-week period these fish will be observed over 4 different groups for their stress response for analyzing different outcomes of the stress parameters and their mitigation through phytochemicals and nutraceuticals. Our expected outcomes are increased growth parameters, high immunity and improved hepatosomatic index in fish treated with phytochemicals within a shorter dosage use of these phytochemicals.