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Microencapsulated diet as supplemental food for larvae and spat of the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata

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Title Microencapsulated diet as supplemental food for larvae and spat of the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata
 
Creator Dharmaraj, S
Kandasamy, D
 
Subject Molluscan Fisheries
Pearl oyster
 
Description The flagellate Isochrysis galbana was found to be the best natural food for the pearl oyster
larvae. TO supplement thir, artificial microencapsulated diet was prepared using edible oyster oil, fish
oil and Soybean lecithin with a view of enhancing the growth of pearl oyster larvae and spat. Different
concentrations of edible oyster oil diet, fish oil diet and lecithin diet were tried by keeping a control
wherein I. galbana was alone given as feed. The control with I. galbana gave good results. Among
the artificial diets tested the edible oyster oil diet showed better results on the growth of larvae and
spat while the fish oil diet promoted weight gain in the spat. The suit3bility of the microencapsulated
diet for the larvae and spat is discussed in this paper.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1988
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2607/1/Article_29.pdf
Dharmaraj, S and Kandasamy, D (1988) Microencapsulated diet as supplemental food for larvae and spat of the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata. CMFRI Bulletin, 42 (2). pp. 358-364.