Replacement of fishmeal with Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis and its use in freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii production
Muralisankar, T.; Santhanam, P.; Radhakrishnan, S.; Manickam, N.; Saravana Bhavan, P. (2019). Replacement of fishmeal with Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis and its use in freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii production, in: Santhanam, P. et al. Basic and applied phytoplankton biology. pp. 77-108. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7938-2_4
In: Santhanam, P.; Begum, A.; Pachiappan, P. (Ed.) (2019). Basic and applied phytoplankton biology. Springer Nature Singapore: Singapore. ISBN 978-981-10-7937-5; e-ISBN 978-981-10-7938-2. X, 336 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7938-2, more
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| Keywords |
Arthrospira Sitzenberger ex Gomont, 1892 [WoRMS]; Arthrospira platensis Gomont, 1892 [WoRMS]
Marine/Coastal |
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Platensis, Feed Ingredients, Experimental Prawns, Amino Acid Profile Analysis |
| Authors | | Top |
- Muralisankar, T.
- Santhanam, P.
- Radhakrishnan, S.
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- Manickam, N.
- Saravana Bhavan, P.
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| Abstract |
Next to agriculture, aquaculture plays a major role in food production around the world. Finfish and shellfish have a vital role in aquaculture operations. Among these, crustaceans, such as prawns, shrimps, crayfish, lobsters and crabs have vital role due to their nutritious delicacy for mankind. Macrobrachium rosenbergii is one of the important cultivable freshwater prawn species due to its wide variety of environment tolerances like temperature and salinity. M. rosenbergii is a candidate species in rural aquaculture for economic development (Tayamen 2007). In prawn culturing industries, about 40–60% of the operational expenditure is incurred towards the feeds used. Among the feed ingredients, fishmeal plays a major role due to the presence of high digestible protein, however, it is an expensive one due to low or unpredictable availability (Maliwat et al. 2016). Hence, there is a need to search the alternative protein sources to replace the fishmeal in prawn aquaculture. In regard to this, a number of studies have been conducted to find alternative source for replacing the fishmeal in the diets of prawns and shrimps (Sudaryono et al. 1999; Yang et al. 2004; Samocha et al. 2004; Muralisankar and Bhavan 2013). |
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