Abstract
Combining live feed and manufactured diets (co-feeding) from an early development stage has been shown to improve growth and survival of marine fish larvae compared to the use of live feed only. Co-feeding seems to serve two purposes; it improves and stabilizes the nutrional condition of the larvae and it pre-conditions the larvae to accept the manufactured diet when live feed is withdrawn, resulting in a shorter weaning period. Factors affecting the lagestion and utilization of manufactured diets, and the importance of relating the time when fish can utilized manufactured diets to larval developmental stage rather than to age, are discussed. Result of co-feeding trials in a number of commercially important species, seabass ( Dicentrarchus labrax) gilthead seabream ( Sparus aurata), turbot ( Scophthalmus maximus) and Atlantic halibut ( poglossus hippoglossus), under practical hatchery conditions are described.
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