Anne Smith (Brown) BSc, PhD
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Emeritus Professor, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter / Director of Aquatonics Ltd
- More than 30 years of experience in research aimed at understanding the extent and mechanisms by which captive conditions and changes in the natural environment affect the physiology and behaviour of fish.
- Expertise in assessing the impacts of water quality and pollutants on adult and larval fish.
- Development of practical welfare indices for assessing welfare of fish on-farm, and how this is influenced by farm practices. Such studies are best carried out on commercial farms where possible, so that realistic approaches are derived.
- Welfare during crowding, grading or harvesting.
- Fin erosion - causes and implications.
- Validation of tools and techniques for practical application by fish farmers in assessing changing practices.
- Remote studies of behaviour of fish.
- Ventilatory responses, oxygen status and physical activity of fish.
- Osmoregulation and salinity adaptations of fish.
- Stress responses of fish to parasites or changing environmental conditions such as salinity, oxygen concentrations, ammonia or the concentrations of pollutants.
Relevant Publications
Publishing as Anne Brown (for fuller CV see aquatonics.com)
Brown, J.A., Watson, J., Bourhill, A., Wall, T. (2010). Physiological welfare of commercially reared cod and effects of crowding for harvesting. Aquaculture 298: 315-324.
Brown, J.A., Bourhill, A., Watson, J., Hodgson, D. (2009). Development of practical on-farm cod welfare indices (SARF 021). Report to Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum and defra
Brown, J.A., Watson, J., Bourhill, A., Wall, T. (2008). Evaluation and use of the Lactate Pro, a portable lactate meter, in monitoring the physiological well-being of farmed Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Aquaculture 285: 135-140.
Scott, D.M., Rabineau, J., Wilson, R.W., Hodgson, D.J., and Brown, J.A. (2008). Can pikeperch colonise new freshwater systems via estuaries? Evidence from behavioural salinity tests. Marine and Freshwater Research 58: 694-702.
Scott, D.M, Wilson R.W., Brown J.A. (2007). Can sunbleak Leucaspius delineatus or topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva disperse through saline waters? Journal of Fish Biology 71: Supplement D: Non-native Fishes: Integrated Biology of Establishment Success and Dispersal 70-86.
Brown A., Bourhill, A., Watson, J., Wall, T., Ellis, T., Zuur, A., Ieno, E.N. (2007). Understanding the welfare of farmed cod under commercial conditions: integration of physiological, behavioural and physical approaches. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 146: S75-86
Crane, H.M., Pickford, D.B., Hutchinson, T.H., Brown, J.A. (2005). Effects of ammonium perchlorate on thyroid function in developing fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas. Environmental Health Perspectives 113, 396-401
Gollock, M.J., Kennedy, C.R., Brown, J.A. (2005). European eels, Anguilla anguilla (L.), infected with Anguillicola crassus exhibit a more pronounced physiological stress response to severe hypoxia than uninfected eels. Journal of Fish Diseases 28: 429-436.
Gollock, M.J., Kennedy, C.R., Quabius, E.S., Brown, J.A. (2004). The effect of parasitism of European eels with the nematode, Anguillicola crassus on the impact of netting and aerial exposure. Aquaculture 233: 45-54
Fishwelfare Articles