Fish were fed commercial diets purchased from Raanan Fish Feed
Industries Limited, Israel twice a day at 4% body weight. Feeding
was stopped 16 h before transport. To each of the 80 L polythene bags,
50 L of water containing designated salinities (prepared by dissolving
designated NaCl in water and verified by salinometer) was added. Each
of the eight salinity treatments was executed in triplicate. To each air
bag, 100 juvenile L. victorianus (stocking biomass=16 kg/m3) were
carefully transferred from holding water of the same salinity