Nutritional properties of microalgae for mariculture
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...Microalgae can also be used for culturing several types of zooplankton (rotifers, cladocerans, brine shrimp or copepods) used as live food in crustacean and finfish farming [89,128,129]....
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...These microalgae are currently being cultivated by several companies, in both Israel and Australia, as sources of these compounds and as dietary supplements and powders, containing vitamins A and C [128]....
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...The main applications for algal biomass in aquaculture are: fish feed [195] including larval nutrition for molluscs or peneid shrimp [196]; colouring for farmed salmonids [196]; stabilisation and improvement of quality of culture medium (‘green-water’ technique) [197]; inducement of essential biological activities in bred aquatic species [196]; and enhancement of the immune systems of fish [192]....
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...Microalgae are required for larval nutrition during a brief period, either for direct consumption in the case of molluscs and peneid shrimp or indirectly as food for the live prey fed to small fish larvae (16, 35)....
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...Theseorganismshaveproportionsof proteins (6–52%), lipids (7–23%) and carbohydrates (5–23%) that are strongly species dependent (Brown et al., 1997)....
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...%) that are strongly species dependent (Brown et al., 1997)....
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...Microalgal lipid composition also varies considerably from one species to another (Brown et al., 1997)....
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...Microalgal lipid content varies considerably from one species to another and could range, in terms of dry biomass, from 5 to 77 wt.% (Brown et al., 1997; Chisti, 2007)....
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...Brown et al. (1997) studied the nutritional properties of 40 different Australian microalgal species and concluded that they comprise, as a weight fraction of dry cell mass, between 5 and 20% lipids....
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...to fish larvae) via intermediary zooplankton (Watanabe et al., 1983)....
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