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Feed and Feeding for Fish and Shellfish

Nutritional Management

  • 1st Edition - November 15, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Vikas Kumar
  • Language: English

Feed and Feeding for Fish and Shellfish: Nutritional Physiology presents foundational knowledge and the most recent advances in aquaculture finfish and crustacean metabolism and nu… Read more

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Description

Feed and Feeding for Fish and Shellfish: Nutritional Physiology presents foundational knowledge and the most recent advances in aquaculture finfish and crustacean metabolism and nutritional requirements, feed ingredients, nutrient deficiency disorders, and integrated sciences. Nutrition is fundamental to the success and sustainability of the aquaculture industry as it relates to economics, fish health, high-quality product production, and pollution minimization. This book provides a unique, complete, and comprehensive coverage of the nutrition, metabolism, and feeding strategies of key aquaculture species.

Written by an international group of experts, this work introduces nutrient requirements of finfish, prawn, shrimp, crabs, and lobster before delving into advances in feed ingredients, production, and practices. Latter chapters discuss the risks of nutritional deficiency and associated diseases and disorders. The final section of the book describes integrated sciences, including aquaculture species immune systems, muscle development, reproduction, gut health, and broader perspectives on seafood quality and food security.

Key features

  • Presents the most recent advances in the field over the last decade
  • Includes all nutritionally balanced, environmentally sound, and cost-effective feed for finfish and crustaceans
  • Provides comprehensive coverage related to nutrition and metabolism of finfish and crustaceans

Readership

Researchers and practitioners in the aquaculture industry, including owners and managers of hatcheries and fish farms. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of marine biology, physiology, and nutrition

Table of contents

Section I: Introductory remarks

1. Introduction of Feed and Feeding Management

Section II: Nutrient requirements

2. Nutrients and energy requirements for fin fish

3. Nutrients and energy requirements for prawn and shrimp

4. Nutrients and energy requirements for crabs and lobster

Section III: Feed ingredients and feeding practices

5. Feed ingredients for aquafeed

6. Antinutritional factors and adventitious toxins

7. Feed Additives

8. Prebiotic and probiotic applications in fish and crustaceans

9. Applications of in vitro digestive simulations

10. Feed manufacturing technology

11. Feeding practices and practical management strategies for finfish and crustaceans

Section IV: Nutritional deficiency diseases and aquatic environment

12. The Pathology of Nutritional disease

13. Water quality and its impacts on feeding practices

Section V: Integrated sciences with nutrition

14. Nutrition and the immune system in fish and shellfish

15. Larval and Broodstock Nutrition of Fin Fish

16. Larval and Broodstock Nutrition of Crustaceans

17. The importance of gut microbes for nutrition and health

18. Omics approaches in fish nutrition research

19. Feed to food

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 19, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Vikas Kumar

Dr. Vikas Kumar is Assistant Professor of Fish Nutrition and Nutrigenomics at the University of Idaho. He obtained his MFSc at the Central Institute of Fisheries Education, India, and his PhD at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Dr. Kumar has more than a decade of research experience in aquaculture and nutritional biochemistry, fish nutrition, nutritional physiology, gut health, and feed processing, formulation, and nutrigenomics. He has collaborated on global research efforts based in Australia, Germany, China, India, Norway, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Malaysia, South Korea, Egypt, Nepal, Kenya, Brazil, and Mexico. He serves as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports and as a leading associate editor for Animal Feed Science and Technology and Journal of the World Aquaculture Society.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Fish Nutrition and Nutrigenomics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

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