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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.
List of contents
Section I: Introductory remarks1. Introduction of Feed and Feeding Management
Section II: Nutrient requirements2. 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 practices5. 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 environment12. The Pathology of Nutritional disease
13. Water quality and its impacts on feeding practices
Section V: Integrated sciences with nutrition14. 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
About the author
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.
