Food Intake in Fish

by Editor: Dominic Houlihan (University of Aberdeen, UK); Editor: Thierry Boujard (Unite mixte INRA-IFREMER, Saint Pee sur Nivelle, France); Editor: Malcolm Jobling

• ISBN13: 9780470999509
• ISBN10: 0470999500
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The intake of food by fishes is an area of study that is of great importance to the applied sciences of fisheries and aquaculture for a number of reasons. For example a thorough knowledge of factors influencing the ingestion of feed can lead to successful manipulation of the rearing environment of cultured fishes, thereby ensuring improved growth performance and feed utilisation, and decreasing the amount of waste (and consequent pollution) per unit of fish produced.This important book, which has arisen out of a European Union COST programme, illustrates how insights into the biological and environmental factors that underlie the feeding responses of fish may be used to address practical issues of feed management.Food Intake in Fish contains carefully edited contributions from internationally recognised scientists, providing a book that is an invaluable tool and reference to all those involved in aquaculture, especially those working in the aquaculture feed industry and scientific personnel in commercial and research aquaculture facilities. This book should also find a place on the shelves of fish biologists and physiologists and as a reference in libraries of universities, research establishments and aquaculture equipment companies.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Feed Composition and Analysis

Feed Types, Manufacture and Ingredients

Techniques for Measuring Feed Intake

Experimental Design in Feeding Experiments

Gustation and Feeding Behaviour

Environmental Factors and Feed Intake: Mechanisms and Interactions

Environmental Factors and Feed Intake: Rearing Systems

Feeding Rhythms

Feeding Anticipatory Activity

Effects of Feeding Time on Feed Intake and Growth

Effects of Nutritional Factors and Feed Characteristics on Feed Intake

Regulation of Food Intake by Neuropeptides and Hormones

Physiological Effects of Feeding

Feeding Management

Nutrient Partitioning and the Influence of Feed Composition on Body Composition

Glossary of Terms

Index

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