Improvement of copepod nutritional quality as live food for aquaculture: a review
By N. W. Rasdi, J. Qin. 2016
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In hatchery, an adequate supply of live food for first-feeding fish larvae is essential and nutritional quality of live food organisms can be improved through nutrient enrichment. The use of live food organisms, especially at first feeding, is a requisite for most marine fish larvae. In ocean, marine fish larvae primarily feed on copepods, but the production protocols of copepods as live food is underdeveloped in hatchery. As the food ingestion and the digestive system of copepods are different from other live food organisms (e.g. rotifers), the nutrition enrichment procedures with emulsion oil used in rotifers is not effective on copepods. This review focuses on alteration of nutrient composition of copepods through manipulation of copepod food before they are fed to fish larvae. Specifically, we discuss the relationship between the changes of fatty acid compositions in dietary algae and in copepods. The review links nutrient supply to copepods and the change of nutrition in copepods and suggests ways to improve copepod nutrition in hatcheries.
Subfields: Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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- Influence of Nitrogen Limitation on Lipid Accumulation and EPA and DHA Content in Four Marine Microalgae for Possible Use in Aquafeed (2019, background): “The increase in PUFA in the algae diet would enhance the egg production and somatic growth of copepods (Rasdi and Qin, 2016) and the high EPA/DHA content explains why R.”