Journal of Aquaculture Research & Development

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

Biography

Karatzinos Theodoros, currently working at Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, Aquaculture Laboratory, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece. The number of articles published are 03 and the number of times cited by, are 07 and the number of reads include are 543. The area of interest in the research was parasitology, Molecular biology, Marine Ecology.

 

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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