FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Potential to produce brown mussel integrated to a net-cage fish farm in a Mediterranean bay BT AF Medhioub, Walid Challouf, Rafika Laabir, Mohamed Limayem, Youness Bchir, Sondes Slimeni, Wissem El Amri, Dorsaf Hamza, Asma Mahfoudhi, Mabrouka Rijal Leblad, Benlahcen Néjib Medhioub, Mohamed Abadie, Eric Rolland, Jean-Luc Salah Azaza, Mohamed AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:1;5:1;6:1;7:1;8:4;9:4;10:6;11:1;12:5;13:7;14:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:PDG-RBE-BIODIVENV;13:PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LAAAS;14:; C1 Laboratoire Aquaculture, Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, Tunisie Laboratoire Biodiversité Marine, Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, Monastir, Tunisie Université Montpellier, MARBEC IRD IFREMER CNRS, Montpellier, France Laboratoire Milieu Marin, Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, Sfax, Tunisie IFREMER, Biodivenv, 79 route de pointe fort, 97231 Le Robert, France INRH (Moroccan Institute of Fisheries Research), Marine Environment Monitoring Laboratory, Tangier, Morocco MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, 87 Avenue Jean Monnet, 34200 Sète, France C2 INSTM, TUNISIA INSTM, TUNISIA UNIV MONTPELLIER, FRANCE INSTM, TUNISIA IFREMER, FRANCE INRH, MOROCCO IFREMER, FRANCE SI MARTINIQUE SETE SE PDG-RBE-BIODIVENV PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LAAAS UM MARBEC IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Ifremer UMR WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe copubli-sud IF 3.7 TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00848/95990/103940.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Brown mussel;growth performance;Potentially toxic microalgae;Microbiological contamination;Mediterranean bay AB In this study, we investigated the potential exploitation of the brown mussel Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) in an aquaculture farm (Monastir Bay, Mediterranean Sea, Tunisia). The quality of seawater as well as performance indicators such as Condition Index, length, weight, growth and frequency distribution of the mussel were determined over an annual cycle; from July 2017 to August 2018. Interestingly, P. perna has an extended sexual cycle during the year with two main spawning periods, the first in spring and the second in autumn, when suspended matter and Chlorophyll a were at their maximum concentrations in seawater. Spat mussels and young mussels showed significant growth rates from 1 July 2017 to 31 October 2017. Adult mussels exhibited negative allometric growth and a modal size of 41 to 50 mm. Results showed that several potentially toxic microalgae species developed at low densities in this marine zone. By using Solid Phase Adsorption Toxins Tracker (SPATT); lipophilic toxins including Okadaic acid and yessotoxins were detected at low levels in seawater and may be involved in the positive LSTs (lipophilic shellfish toxins) mouse bioassays in P. perna during the autumn. No other toxins such as paralytic shellfish toxins or amnesic shellfish toxins nor pathogenic bacteria or viruses were detected in P. perna. Altogether, our results suggest that finfish farms in Monastir Bay could be suitable sites for farming P. perna. PY 2023 PD AUG SO Aquaculture Reports SN 2352-5134 PU Elsevier BV VL 31 UT 001051300600001 DI 10.1016/j.aqrep.2023.101674 ID 95990 ER EF