Journal of Aquaculture Research & Development

Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, Aquaculture Laboratory, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece

Biography

Fleris Georgios, currently working at Department  of  Ichthyology  and  Aquatic  Environment, Aquaculture  Laboratory, School  of  Agricultural  Sciences, University  of  Thessaly, Greece. The number of articles publsihed are 103 and the number of times cited  by, are 4649. The area of interest in the research was Metabolites and Antibacterial activities in the habitat.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Effect of Origanum vulgare, Eugenia aromatica and Cinnamomum zeylanicum Essential Oils as Welfare Promoters in Gilthead Seabream during Slaughter
  Author(s): Panagiotaki Panagiota*, Ntantali Olga, Karatzinos Theodoros, Antoniou Zoe and Fleris Georgios
  
  The potential of three essential oils, Origanum vulgare, Eugenia aromatica and Cinnamomum zeylanicum as slaughter anaesthetic agents, is presently assessed. Commercial stunning methods inducing rapid unconsciousness in fish before slaughtering, is urgently required. For now there is no acceptable method that can ensure kill fish humanely and all the commercially used methods of slaughter for farmed fish include a prolonged period of consciousness. Four slaughtering methods were applied, over-dose of four anaesthetics (three essential oils Origanum vulgare, Eugenia aromatica, Cinnamomum zeylanicum and 2-phenoxyethanol), asphyxia, bleeding and immersion in ice-water, in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata L.). Asphyxia, considered inhumane, but solely used in all wild fish, is also being assessed in Atlantic horse mac.. View more»
  

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