A comment on the methodology of stocking experiments

The study raised other sources of concern. For instance, allometry was overlooked in a significant proportion of experiments on crustaceans (55%) and finfish (25%), which caused ration level to be adjusted following inappropriate principles. The issues of replacement/removal of individuals and of the dimensions of the variable used to measure stocking level were also examined. Inappropriate procedures were found in a number of cases. Suggestions are made to deal with these issues in a more acceptable way. These problems, which may lead to serious flaws in advice to growers, were not restricted to papers published in Aquaculture.