Multiple lines of evidences have indicated that environmental
temperature affects a variety of physiological and biochemical
processes that are important for fish from the perspective of fisheries
biology since growth and developmental rates, metabolism,
oxygen consumption, and the impact of environmental insults
(toxic metabolites, pathogens or virus) are markedly temperaturedependent
for the ectothermic animal [1e5]. Generally, fishes are
more susceptible to these effects at higher temperature. On the
other hand, long-term changes in higher temperature lead ectothermic
animals including fish to display acclimatory responses,
which may include enzymatic changes thought to mitigate the effect
of temperature on metabolism