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Health Maintenance and Welfare of Aquatic Animals

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Given the positive correlation between the environmental quality and the health of the farmed animals in aquaculture waters, one of the core tasks of aquaculture management is to enhance the health of cultured aquatic animals by improving water quality, to reduce, alleviate or even eliminate the occurrence of certain diseases for higher farming efficiency and safer aquatic products. In this chapter health maintenance of aquaculture animals, regulation of bacterial community in aquaculture waters, ecological prevention of disease, and welfare of aquaculture fish are introduced.

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Dong, SL., Zhou, YG. (2023). Health Maintenance and Welfare of Aquatic Animals. In: Dong, SL., Tian, XL., Gao, QF., Dong, YW. (eds) Aquaculture Ecology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5486-3_13

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