Authors: Dominic Houlihan (Editor), Malcolm Jobling (Editor), Thierry Boujard
ISBN-13: 9780632055760, ISBN-10: 0632055766
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: New Edition
Dominic Houlihan is at the University of Aberdeen, UK; Thierry Boujard is at INRA-IFREMER, Sainte Pee sur Nivelle, France; Malcolm Jobling is at NFH, University of Tromso, Norway.
The intake of food by fishes is an area of study that is of great importance to the applied sciences of fisheries and aquaculture for a number of reasons. For example a thorough knowledge of factors influencing the ingestion of feed can lead to successful manipulation of the rearing environment of cultured fishes, thereby ensuring improved growth performance and feed utilisation, and decreasing the amount of waste (and consequent pollution) per unit of fish produced.
This important book, which has arisen out of a European Union COST programme, illustrates how insights into the biological and environmental factors that underlie the feeding responses of fish may be used to address practical issues of feed management.
Food Intake in Fish contains carefully edited contributions from internationally recognised scientists, providing a book that is an invaluable tool and reference to all those involved in aquaculture, especially those working in the aquaculture feed industry and scientific personnel in commercial and research aquaculture facilities. This book should also find a place on the shelves of fish biologists and physiologists and as a reference in libraries of universities, research establishments and aquaculture equipment companies.
List of Contributors | ||
Preface | ||
1 | Feed Composition and Analysis | 1 |
2 | Feed Types, Manufacture and Ingredients | 25 |
3 | Techniques for Measuring Feed Intake | 49 |
4 | Experimental Design in Feeding Experiments | 88 |
5 | Gustation and Feeding Behaviour | 108 |
6 | Environmental Factors and Feed Intake: Mechanisms and Interactions | 131 |
7 | Environmental Factors and Feed Intake: Rearing Systems | 157 |
8 | Feeding Rhythms | 189 |
9 | Feeding Anticipatory Activity | 216 |
10 | Effects of Feeding Time on Feed Intake and Growth | 233 |
11 | Effects of Nutritional Factors and Feed Characteristics on Feed Intake | 250 |
12 | Regulation of Food Intake by Neuropeptides and Hormones | 269 |
13 | Physiological Effects of Feeding | 297 |
14 | Feeding Management | 332 |
15 | Nutrient Partitioning and the Influence of Feed Composition on Body Composition | 354 |
Glossary of Terms | 377 | |
Index | 415 |