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Nutrition and Fish Health book cover

1st Edition

Nutrition and Fish Health

By Carl D Webster, Chhorn Lim Copyright 2001
392 Pages
by CRC Press

388 Pages
by CRC Press

392 Pages
by CRC Press
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Safeguard the success of aquaculture operations without expensive antibiotics! Diseases are a major threat to the sustainability of the aquaculture industry. Because antibiotics have many drawbacks, increasing importance is being placed on understanding the mechanisms that make nutrition a key factor in host defense against pathogens. Nutrition and Fish Health is the first book to provide... Read more
Preface Chapter 1. Overview of Warm-Water Fish Diseases Chapter 2. An Overview of the Economically Important Diseases of Salmonids Chapter 3. The Penaeid Shrimp Viruses TSV, IHHNV, WSSV, and YHV: Current Status in the Americas, Available Diagnostic Methods, and Management Strategies Chapter 4. Overview of Nutritional Strategies Affecting the Health of Marine Fish Chapter 5. Nutritional Aspects of Health and Related Components of Baitfish Performance Chapter 6. Nutritional Deficiencies in Commercial Aquaculture: Likelihood, Onset, and Identification Chapter 7. Immunity and Disease Resistance in Fish Chapter 8. Dietary Ascorbic Acid Requirement for Growth and Health in Fish Chapter 9. Dietary Iron and Fish Health Chapter 10. The Role of Dietary Phosphorus, Zinc, and Selenium in Fish Health Chapter 11. Influence of Dietary Lipid Composition on the Immune System and Disease Resistance of Finfish Chapter 12. Immunostimulants in Fish Diets Chapter 13. Mycotoxins in Fish Feeds Chapter 14. Feed Allowance and Fish Health Chapter 15. Dietary Lipids and Stress Tolerance of Larval Fish Chapter 16. Modulation of Environmental Requirements of Finfish Through Nutrition Chapter 17. Vaccines: Prevention of Diseases in Aquatic Animals

Biography

Chhorn Lim, PhD, has more than 25 years of experience in aquaculture nutrition and feed development research. Currently, he is the Nutrition Scientist at the Fish Diseases and Parasites Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Services at Auburn, Alabama, where he conducts research on the interactions between nutrition, immune system function, and disease resistance. Carl D. Webster, PhD, has more than 10 years of experience in aquaculture nutrition and diet development research. Currently, he is Principal Investigator for Aquaculture at the Aquaculture Research Center, Kentucky State University, where he conducts research on nutrition requirements and practical diet formulations for fish and crustacean species that are currently or potentially cultured.

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