Histological study as indicator of juveniles farmed turbot, Scophthalmus maximus L. health status

Several tools can be used to evaluate the health status of fish. Histology is one of them because it assesses pathological changes induced by environment, pathogens and/or nutritional factors. The histological condition of macroscopically healthy turbot juveniles in the beginning of the growing phase in an intensive fish farm was evaluated. The gill, skin, liver, kidney and intestine were histologically processed by standard techniques and their...