Nutritional Value and Uses of Microalgae in Aquaculture
By Catarina Guedes, F. Xavier Malcata. 2012
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Microalgae play indeed a crucial nutritional role with regard to marine animals in the open sea, and consequently in aquaculture. Most marine invertebrates depend on microalgae for their whole life cycle, so commercial and experimental mollusc or fish hatcheries have included a microalga production system in parallel to their animal production itself. Microalgae are utilized as live feed for all growth stages of bivalve molluscs (e.g. oysters, scallops, clams and mussels), for larval/early juvenile stages of abalone, crustaceans and some fish species, and for zooplankton used in aquaculture food webs at large. It should be emphasized that the productivity of any hatchery is directly related to the quantity and quality of the food source used therein.
Subfields: Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Phenolic compounds, carotenoids, and antioxidant capacities of a thermo-tolerant Scenedesmus sp. (Chlorophyta) extracted with different solvents (2019, unknown): “Other microalgae (e.g., Nannochloropsis spp., Tetraselmis spp.) with high polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) composition are used as fish feed in aquaculture (Guedes and Malcata 2012; Sørensen et al. 2017).”
- The Application of Single-Cell Ingredients in Aquaculture Feeds—A Review (2020, background): “They are now being used as protein/amino acid sources, omega-3 sources and sources of bioactive molecules like astaxanthin and peptidoglycans [6,7].”