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Fish Diseases and Nutrition
Author(s) -
Halver John E.
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1953)83[254:fdan]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - malnutrition , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , disease , population , vitamin , nutritional deficiency , physiology , medicine , environmental health , pathology , fishery , endocrinology
Malnutrition in fish population, although recognized by the earliest workers in fish culture, has only recenty received intensive study commensurate with that in other fields of animal nutrition. Recent experimental test diets have produced specific deficiency syndromes for most of the vitamins and have indicated the possibility of developing specific deficiencies for amino acids, fatty acids, and other basic nutrients. During the past 3 years the first evidence of susceptibility to bacterial disease in lots of fish with sub‐clinical manifestations of vitamin deficiencies has opened an entire new field in fish‐disease study. In this review (a portion of a symposium on fish diseases) the nutrition of salmonids is emphasized. Advancements within the last 10 years in the fields of avitaminosis, hypervitaminosis, susceptibility to disease and general malnutrition are mentioned and a table is included which compares the specific avitaminosis syndromes observed in fish with those observed in other experimental animals.