Acute Toxicity and Optimal Dose of Clove Oil as Anaesthetic for Blue Hill Trout Barilius bakeri (Day)
Acute Toxicity and Optimal Dose of Clove Oil as Anaesthetic for Blue Hill Trout Barilius bakeri (Day)
Date
2013
Authors
Sindhu, M.C
Ramachandran, A
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Society of Fisheries Technologists (India)Cochin
Abstract
Stone (1999) and Kildea et al. (2004) have assessed
the advantages and disadvantages of clove oil as a
fish anaesthetic. Most of them have reported it to
be safe and effective anaesthetic but it has a narrow
margin of safety. Care must be taken when using
high concentrations of clove oil for induction,
because ventilatory failure may occur rapidly. A
combined view of the findings leads to the
recommendation that, for the size of blue hill trout
used in the present study, clove oil, with fast
induction and rapid recovery times offers a
manageable, safe anaesthetic alternative, which can
be useful in aquaculture and fish handling activities.
In future clove oil would be in use as an
anaesthetic in Indian blue hill trout for long distant
transportation.
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Keywords
Acute Toxicity, Optimal Dose o,Clove Oil Anaesthetic for Blue Hill Trout Barilius bakeri (Day)
Citation
Fishery Tech 50(3):280-283