Fish nutrition

Title:

Fish nutrition

Author:

Halver, John E. (John Emil), 1922-

ISBN:

9780123196521

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication Information:

San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, c2002.

Physical Description:

xiv, 824 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Bioenergetics -- Dominique P. Bureau, Sadasivam J. Kaushik, and C.Young Cho -- The Vitamins -- John E. Halver -- Amino Acids and Proteins -- Robert P. Wilson -- The Lipids -- John R. Sargent, Douglas R. Tocher, and J. Gordon Bell -- The Minerals -- Santosh P. Lall -- Intermediary Metabolism -- Konrad Dabrowski and Helga Guderley -- Nutritional Physiology -- Michael B. Rust -- Nutritional Pathology -- Ronald J. Roberts -- Diet Formulation and Manufacture -- Ronald W. Hardy and Frederick T. Barrows -- Adventitious Toxins -- Jerry D. Hendricks -- Special Feeds -- George M. Pigott and Barbee W. Tucker -- Nutrition and Fish Health -- Delbert M. Gatlin III -- Diet and Fish Husbandry -- Richard T. Lovell -- Nutrient Flow and Retention -- John E. Halver and Ronald W. Hardy.

Abstract:

This third edition of Fish Nutrition is a comprehensive treatise on nutrient requirements and metabolism in major species of fish used in aquaculture or scientific experiments. It covers nutrients required and used in cold water, warm water, fresh water, and marine species for growth and reproduction. It also highlights basic physiology and biochemistry of the nutrients and applications of these principles to scientific and practical diet formulations and to manufacturing techniques for major species used worldwide in aquaculture. *Nutrient requirements for dietary formulations for fish farming *Digestive physiology *Comparative nutritional requirements of different species *Fish as unique animals for certain metabolic pathways.

Subject Term:

Fishes -- Feeding and feeds.

Fishes -- Nutrition.

Poissons -- Alimentation.

Peixes.

Alimentos para animais.

Nutriçäao animal.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Added Author:

Halver, John E. (John Emil), 1922-

Hardy, Ronald W.