Acute death in farmed marine fishes caused by sea anemone (Bunodeopsis sp.) in Central Vietnam.

(d) The contacted fish exhibited severely attenuated and flattened epithelium (yellow arrow) and alteration in their pigment layer on the dorsal skin (black arrow, H&E stain) gl Field observations suggested that the sea anemone may be the cause of the acute death of the snubnose pompano and permit. Keywords: broodstock; mortality; permit; red drum; snubnose pompano EN broodstock mortality permit red drum snubnose pompano 1799 1803 5 10/14/22 20221101 NES 221101 In February 2022, unusual acute mortalities were observed in snubnose pompano ( I Trachinotus blochii i ) and permit ( I T. falcatus i ) broodstock held in sea cages in Nha Phu lagoon, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam. Thirty fish ( I n i = 30) were divided evenly among three groups: high density (25 sea anemones per 100 ml), low density (5 sea anemones per 100 ml) and control (no sea anemone). [Extracted from the article]