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Potential Species of Copepods for Marine Finfish Hatchery

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Title Potential Species of Copepods for Marine
Finfish Hatchery
 
Creator Santhosh, B
Muhammed Anzeer, F
Unnikrishnan, C
Anil, M K
 
Subject Copepods
Mariculture
Hatchery
 
Description Copepods are the most important group of zooplankton which forms the natural food for many fishes and
invertebrates. One of the important problems in the marine fish hatchery is the lack of complete balanced
larval feed. Copepods, even the newly hatched nauplii are nutritious, rich in PUFA, DHA and EPA, in most
desirable ratios (Watanabe et al.,1978; 1983; Sargent1986; Watanabe and Kiron, 1994; Sargent et al., 1997;
Stottrup, 2000, 2006), easily digestible (Pederson, 1984; Stottrup, 2000) and rich in antioxidants, astaxanthine,
vitamin C, D & E (Van der Meeren, 2003; McKinnon et al., 2003). Copepods if fed during the larval phase,
reduces malpigmentation and deformity rates, increases the pigmentation and survival (Bell et al., 1997, Bell,
1998, Stottrup, 2000; Hamre et al., 2005). More than 12000 species copepods are there living in a variety of
ecological niches. Most of the early fish larvae are evolutionarily adapted for feeding on copepods than on other
animals.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2015
 
Type Teaching Resource
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10684/1/26.%20Santhosh.pdf
Santhosh, B and Muhammed Anzeer, F and Unnikrishnan, C and Anil, M K (2015) Potential Species of Copepods for Marine Finfish Hatchery. [Teaching Resource]