Manual d Eproducción y Uso De Alimento Vivo Para Producción Acuicola

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PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT
The success of any farming operation for fish and shellfish depends upon the availability of a ready supply of larvae or seed for on-growing to market size. However, for many fish and shellfish species (i.e. carps, marine finfish,crustaceans, bivalves etc.) this has only been possible in recent years through the development and use of a succession of live food organisms as feed for the developing larvae. The aim of the present manual was therefore to review and summarise the latest developments concerning the production and use of the major live food organisms currently employed in larviculture worldwide. This document has beenprepared within the framework of the aquaculture nutrition and feed development activities of Dr. A.G.J. Tacon, Fishery Resources Officer, Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service, FAO Fishery Resources Division, to help meet the needs of aquaculture workers of Member Countries for the synthesis of information in the field of aquaculture nutrition. The editors would like to thank James deCaluwe, Rudi Bijnens, Magda Vanhooren and March Verschraeghen for their assistance with the layout of the manual.

Lavens, P; Sorgeloos, P. (eds.) Manual on the production and use of live food for aquaculture FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 361. Rome, FAO. 1996. 295p. ABSTRACT The cultivation of fish and shellfish larvae under controlled hatchery conditions requires not only the development ofspecific culture techniques, but in most cases also the production and use of live food organisms as feed for the developing larvae. The present manual describes the major production techniques currently employed for the cultivation of the major types of live food commonly used in larviculture, as well as their application potential in terms of their nutritional and physical properties and feedingmethods. The manual is divided into different sections according to the major groups of live food organisms used in aquaculture, namely micro-algae, rotifers, Artemia, natural zooplankton, and copepods, nematodes and trochophores.

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INTRODUCTION
Patrick Lavens and Patrick Sorgeloos
Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center University of Gent, Belgium

Whereas in the 1970s the production of farmed marine finfish and shrimp relied almost exclusively on the capture of wild fry for subsequent stocking and on-growing in ponds, tanks or cages, thecomplete domestication of many marine and brackishwater aquaculture species was only achieved during the last two decades. However, since then the controlled production of larvae from captive broodstock, or in other words the hatchery production of fry, has now become a routine operation for most cultivated fish and shellfish species; billions of fish and shellfish larvae (i.e. bivalve...