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Houlihan - Food Intake in Fish - 9780632055760 - V9780632055760
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Food Intake in Fish

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Description for Food Intake in Fish Hardcover. aeo comprehensive text, written by international experts aeo of huge importance to the aquaculture feed industry aeo definitive reference source for many years into the future. Editor(s): Houlihan, Dominic; Boujard, Thierry; Jobling, Malcolm. Num Pages: 448 pages, 120. BIC Classification: TVT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 187 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1016.
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 ... Read more


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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780632055760
SKU
V9780632055760
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Houlihan
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.

Reviews for Food Intake in Fish
"... active researchers and members of the aquaculture industry will find a personal copy invaluable." Fish and Fisheries "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. Food Intake in Fish contains carefully edited contributions from ... Read more

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