Edited By
John Halver , University of Washington
Ronald Hardy
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.
Audience
Fish and marine biologists, biochemists, graduate students in fisheries and veterinary science.
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
Hardbound, 500 pages, publication date: 2003
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