Cobia culture in Taiwan: current status and problems

First record of Neobenedenia melleni (Monogenea: Capsalidae) in sea-farmed cobia (Rachycentron canadum) in Brazil

“…The great growth potential of cobia, their easy adaptability and ability to breed in captivity, excellent meat quality and carcass utilization, among other attributes, have induced rapid growth of cobia farming all over the world (CHANG et al, 2007). However, one of the main limitations affecting cobia culture is the diseases caused by helminth ectoparasites (monogeneans) (LIAO et al, 2004), especially Neobenedenia species (OGAWA et al, 2006).…”

“…The great growth potential of cobia, their easy adaptability and ability to breed in captivity, excellent meat quality and carcass utilization, among other attributes, have induced rapid growth of cobia farming all over the world (CHANG et al, 2007). However, one of the main limitations affecting cobia culture is the diseases caused by helminth ectoparasites (monogeneans) (LIAO et al, 2004), especially Neobenedenia species (OGAWA et al, 2006).Infestations by ectoparasites in farmed fish have been recorded since the late 1950s (OGAWA et al, 1995). Deveney et al (2001) described an outbreak of Neobenedenia elleni (MacCallum, 1927) parasitizing Lates calcarifer in Australian waters that resulted in the loss of 200,000 fish due to secondary infection.…”

Physiological roles of fatty acyl desaturases and elongases in marine fish: Characterisation of cDNAs of fatty acyl Δ6 desaturase and elovl5 elongase of cobia (Rachycentron canadum)

“…The marine fish cobia is found worldwide in tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate seas, other than the eastern Pacific, but the commercial fishery is small due to their solitary nature (Shaffer and Nakamura, 1989;Ditty and Shaw, 1992). However, cobia is an excellent candidate for aquaculture because of its rapid growth, reaching 6-10 kg in 12-14 months, a rate around 3-to 5-fold greater than Atlantic salmon, as well as having excellent flesh quality (Liao et al, 2004;Holt et al, 2007). This species also expresses many other favourable production-related characteristics, including spawning in captivity (Caylor et al, 1994;Arnold et al, 2002;Faulk and Holt, 2006), high survival at post-weaning, ability to withstand shifts in salinity (Faulk and Holt, 2006) and responsiveness to vaccination (Lin et al, 2006).…”

“…Cobia also adapts to confinement and readily accepts commercially-available extruded diets (Craig and McLean, 2005). However, while a developing cobia aquaculture industry already exists in Taiwan, the Caribbean and south-east United States, future expansion capitalising on the full potential of this species will be dependent upon increasing our knowledge of its basic nutrition and metabolism (Liao et al, 2004;Holt et al, 2007).…”

Effect of temperature on growth and energy budget of juvenile cobia (Rachycentron canadum)

“…Many aspects of cobia biology have been investigated ( (Dawson, 1971;Ditty and Shaw, 1992;Franks et al, 1996;Brown-Peterson et al, 2001;Chou et al, 2001;Zhou et al, 2004;Liao et al, 2004;Wang et al, 2005;Turner and Rooker, 2005;Faulk and Holt, 2005;Lunger et al, 2006;Resley et al, 2006;Sun et al, 2006), but little information is available on the growth-temperature relationship and the energy budget. This study investigated the effect of temperature on growth and energy budget of juvenile cobia.…”