Manufactured feeds are an important part of modern commercial aquaculture. They provide the balanced nutrition needed by farmed fish. The feeds, in the form...

Aquarium fish feed is plant or animal material intended for consumption by pet fish kept in aquariums or ponds. Fish foods normally contain macronutrients...

Fish meal, sometimes spelt fishmeal, is a commercial product made from whole wild-caught fish, bycatch, and fish by-products to feed farm animals, e.g...

commercially produced for the livestock, poultry, swine, and fish industries. The commercial production of feed is governed by state and national laws. For example...

manufactured by feed compounders as meal type, pellets or crumbles. The main ingredients used in commercially prepared feed are the feed grains, which include...

Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. It...

largest producer of feeds for farmed fish. In 2016, the company has operations on five continents and produces 2 million tonnes of feed annually, for more...

Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone). They occupy the sea floors and lake...

fish feed, called the FIFO ratio (or Fish In – Fish Out ratio). FIFO is fish in (the mass of harvested fish used to feed farmed fish) divided by fish...

ruminants, poultry, fish, and other livestock. For commercial fish feed, winged bean is a potentially lower-cost protein source. In Africa, fish meal is especially...

Forage fish, also called prey fish or bait fish, are small pelagic fish that feed on planktons (i.e. planktivores) and other small aquatic organisms (e...

fertilizer. As hydroponics is based on feeding plants inorganic fertilizer and as many aquaponic growers use commercial fish feed, it has been suggested that vermiponics...

pl.: salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the...

there they are fished using nets and floating mats of palm leaves under which they collect. Mahi-mahi are carnivorous, feeding on flying fish, crabs, squid...

A fish (pl.: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits...

business includes mainly shrimp and some fish. The products can be classified into three main categories: animal feed, animal breeders, and meat and food products...

collectively called the temperate basses. It is fished and raised commercially and is considered the most important fish currently cultured in the Mediterranean...

Epipelagic fish can be divided broadly into small forage fish and larger predator fish that feed on them. Forage fish school and filter feed on plankton...

longiceps) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella. It is one of the two most important commercial fishes in India (with the mackerel). The...

fresh and salt water habitats. Extant jawless fish are either lamprey or hagfish. Juvenile lamprey feed by sucking up mud containing micro-organisms and...

to make home-made raw diets to feed their animals but commercial raw diets are also available. The practice of feeding raw diets has raised some concerns...

the availability of commercial feeds has reduced some of these concerns since their greater prevalence in the 1990s and 2000s . Fish waste is organic and...

feed on uneaten salmon feeds which have passed through the net walls of the cages. It is the opinion of fishermen that the fish caught close to fish farms...

into a multi-pond system, with fish, especially milkfish, shifted between ponds as they grow. The use of supplementary feed has developed from using rice...

It feeds in midwater on small squids, crustaceans, and fish. Its length is between 60 and 120 cm (24 and 47 in). It is a slender, silvery fish similar...

billion, about equal to those of salmon and trout. Unlike carnivorous fish, tilapia can feed on algae or any plant-based food. This reduces the cost of tilapia...

are feeding tend to become circular. Forage fish are small fish which are preyed on by larger predators for food. Predators include other larger fish, seabirds...

of the popular fishes that may be found in the coastal waters of Mauritius. Local names are shown in italics. The colours of the fish have been described...

palatable freshwater fish, and consequently, is fished recreationally and commercially for food. Because of its nocturnal feeding habits, it is most easily...

name for fish in the Merlucciidae family of the northern and southern oceans and the Phycidae family of the northern oceans. Hake is a commercially important...