“…in fish energy balance, affecting the rate of food intake, metabolic rate and growth performance (Forseth et al, 2009;Elliott and Elliott, 2010;Elliott and Allonby, 2013). It is also involved in many other physiological functions such as blood and reproductive maturation (Jeffries et al, 2012), reproductive timing (Warren et al, 2012), gametogenesis (Lahnsteiner and Leitner, 2013), cardiac function (Vornanen et al, 2014), gene expression (White et al, 2012;Meshcheryakova et al, 2016), ecological relationships (Hein et al, 2013;Fey and Herren, 2014), and fish behaviour (Colchen et al, 2016). 5…”