Food Intake in Fish-01
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,...
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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.
List of ContributorsPreface1Feed Composition and Analysis12Feed Types, Manufacture and Ingredients253Techniques for Measuring Feed Intake494Experimental Design in Feeding Experiments885Gustation and Feeding Behaviour1086Environmental Factors and Feed Intake: Mechanisms and Interactions1317Environmental Factors and Feed Intake: Rearing Systems1578Feeding Rhythms1899Feeding Anticipatory Activity21610Effects of Feeding Time on Feed Intake and Growth23311Effects of Nutritional Factors and Feed Characteristics on Feed Intake25012Regulation of Food Intake by Neuropeptides and Hormones26913Physiological Effects of Feeding29714Feeding Management33215Nutrient Partitioning and the Influence of Feed Composition on Body Composition354Glossary of Terms377Index415
\ From the Publisher"... active researchers and members of the aquaculture industry will find a personal copy invaluable." \ Fish and Fisheries \ "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. 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."\ International Aquafeed, November 2005\ \ \
