Dietary Nutrients, Additives, and Fish Health

About this book

Fish nutrition can be the deciding factor between a robust and healthy farmed fish population and low aquaculture production. In an age where chemicals and antibiotics are under greater scrutiny than ever, a strong understanding of the role of nutrients and feed additives is essential in the aquaculture industry.

Dietary Nutrients, Additives and Fish Health is a comprehensive review of dietary nutrients, antinutritional factors and toxins, and non-nutrient dietary additives, and their effects on fish performance and immune system function, as well as overall health.

The book opens with an overview of fish immune systems and health. Subsequent chapters delve into proteins and amino acids, lipids and fatty acids, carbohydrates, beta glucans, vitamins, minerals, antinutrients, mycotoxins, nucleotides, prebiotics, probiotics, organic acids and their salts, and plant extracts and their impacts on fish health, growth, and development. The text then concludes with a chapter on feeding practices.

Authored by leaders in aquaculture, Dietary Nutrients, Additives and Fish Health will be an invaluable resource to graduate students, researchers and professionals alike.

Contents

List of Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv

1 Overview of Fish Immune System and Infectious Diseases 1
      Craig Shoemaker, De-Hai Xu, Benjamin LaFrentz, and Scott LaPatra
2 Protein, Amino Acids, and Ingredients 25
      Carl D. Webster and Kenneth R. Thompson
3 Lipids and Fatty Acids 47
      Douglas R. Tocher and Brett D. Glencross
4 Carbohydrates 95
      Gro-Ingunn Hemre and Dong-Fang Deng
5 ß-Glucans 111
      Ann L. Gannam
6 Vitamins (Excluding C and E) 125
      Shi-Yen Shiau and Yu-Hung Lin
7 The Effect of Vitamin C on Fish Health 151
      Viviane Verlhac Trichet, Ester Santigosa, Eve Cochin, and Jacques Gabaudan
8 Vitamin E 173
      Marisol Izquierdo and Mónica Betancor
9 Minerals 195
      Carl D. Webster and Chhorn Lim
10 Antinutrients 211
      Åshild Krogdahl and Anne Marie Bakke
11 Mycotoxin Contamination of Fish Feeds 237
      Bruce B. Manning
12 Nucleotides 249
      Peng Li, Jianmin Zhao, and Delbert M. Gatlin III
13 Prebiotics 271
      Delbert M. Gatlin III
14 Gastrointestinal Microorganisms of Fish and Probiotics 283
      Viswanath Kiron
15 Organic Acids and Their Salts 305
      Chhorn Lim, Christian Lückstädt, Carl D. Webster, and Phillip Kesius
16 Plant Extracts 321
      Galina Jeney, Lourens De Wet, Zsigmond Jeney, and Guojun Yin
17 Feeding Practices and Fish Health 333
      Chhorn Lim, Carl D. Webster, and Cheng-Sheng Lee

Index 347

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Biography

Cheng-Sheng Lee is the Director of the Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture, NIFA-USDA at Oceanic Institute of Hawaii Pacific University, HI, USA. Chhorn Lim is a Nutrition Scientist at the United States Department of Agriculture's Aquatic Animal Health Research Laboratory in Auburn, Alabama, USA. Delbert M. Gatlin III is Regents Professor and Associate Department Head for Research and Graduate Programs in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University, Texas, USA. Carl Webster is Center Director/Research Leader of the USDA-ARS Harry K. Dupree Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center, Stuttgart, AR, USA.