The impacts of increasing temperature and moderate hypoxia on the production characteristics, cardiac morphology and haematology of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)

Given the predicted effects of climate change on seawater temperatures and water oxygen levels (i.e., the frequency and severity of hypoxia), it is important to understand the impact of these two environmental challenges on salmon used in the Atlantic Canada aquaculture industry (i.e., of Saint John River origin). Thus, we exposed salmon to: 1) control conditions (12 °C, 100% air sat.); 2) an incremental temperature increase (1 °C per week from...