Shellfish Breeding and Hatchery Management (2+1)

28.1.1 Spirulina in Aquaculture

Breeding of fish has emerged as a major industry in India over they past decade, so much so that today prasons and shuimps are major export items Spirulina is a good protein diet with adequate minualsand intamins.

The single cell protein spirulina has been iroghiyed as one of the potential

Ingredients for use in aquaculture and successful attempts have been made in the mass culture of this algar. The better digestibility of protein and fat observed in spirulina incorporated diets must be due to better absartron. Spirulina flabes are being used in shrimps hatcheries to obtain better growth and scusval

In Taiwan fishuy experimental station. Spirulina was pound to are an excellent source of food for shrimps lowae and milh fry and yearlings. Its role in augmentader the pigmentatron of anamental fish and prawn larvae has commercial significance.