The Use of Bioenergetic Measurements to Estimate Prey Consumption, Nutritional Status and Thermal Habitat Requirements for Marine Organisms Reared in the Sea
- Author: A.J. Paul
- Pub. no.: RP-00-16
- Year: 1997
- Price: Single copies free
Description
This paper reviews physiological approaches to evaluate species for mass culture, and to assess the nutritional status of fish released into the marine environment. Oxygen consumption rates can identify an organism's thermal comfort zone, and conversion efficiency trials can estimate requirements for prey. Time and geographical measurements of whole body energy content can identify nutritional status, to help determine site suitability, competition, feeding intensity, and year-to-year prey availability. Bulletin of the National Research Institute of Aquaculture 1997(Supplement 3):59-68.
