Alternative proteins for fish diets: Implications beyond growth

C Aragão, AT Gonçalves, B Costas, R Azeredo… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Aquaculture is now well-established as a provider of protein for human
consumption, and its contribution will be paramount to providing food for a nine billion …

Probiotics have the potential to significantly mitigate the environmental impact of freshwater fish farms

C Nathanailides, M Kolygas, K Choremi, T Mavraganis… - Fishes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Probiotics for freshwater fish farming can be administered as single or multiple mixtures. The
expected benefits of probiotics include disease prophylaxis, improved growth, and feed …

Fishmeal Replacement by Full-Fat and Defatted Hermetia illucens Prepupae Meal in the Diet of Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata)

IT Karapanagiotidis, MC Neofytou, A Asimaki… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Insect proteins are considered as suitable low environmental impact alternatives to fishmeal
for sustainable aquafeeds. Among the different insect species, Hermetia illucens has …

Differential modulation of the European sea bass gut microbiota by distinct insect meals

F Rangel, P Enes, L Gasco, F Gai… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The aquaculture industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors in animal food production.
However, farming of carnivorous fish strongly relies on the use of wild fish-based meals, a …

Insect meals in feeds for juvenile gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata): Effects on growth, blood chemistry, hepatic metabolic enzymes, body composition and nutrient …

M Mastoraki, L Katsika, P Enes, I Guerreiro… - Aquaculture, 2022 - Elsevier
Alternative and sustainable fish diets are required by modern aquaculture. We investigated
the possibility of using insect (Tenebrio molitor TM, Hermetia illucens HI or Musca domestica …

Carob (Ceratonia siliqua) as Functional Feed Is Beneficial in Yellow Mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) Rearing: Evidence from Growth, Antioxidant Status and Cellular …

E Antonopoulou, N Panteli, K Feidantsis, M Mastoraki… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
In terms of sustainability and circular economy, agricultural by-products may be efficiently
reused in insects' rearing for high-quality protein sources in human diet and animal feeds …

Feeding gilthead sea bream with increasing dietary bacterial single cell protein level: Implication on growth, plasma biochemistry, gut histology, and gut microbiota

A Marchi, A Bonaldo, D Scicchitano, M Candela… - Aquaculture, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacterial single cell protein (SCP) is considered a promising circular protein ingredient for
aquafeed, due to the high protein content, and for the possibilities to grow them on different …

[HTML][HTML] Hermetia illucens larvae meal as an alternative protein source in practical diets for gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata): A study on growth, plasma …

S Busti, A Bonaldo, M Candela, D Scicchitano… - Aquaculture, 2024 - Elsevier
The effects of dietary Hermetia illucens (HI) larvae meal on growth, plasma biochemistry and
gut microbiota was tested in gilthead sea bream. Four isonitrogenous and isolipidic extruded …

Dietary fishmeal replacement by black soldier fly larvae meals affected red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) production performance and intestinal microbiota depending …

FY Yamamoto, BA Suehs, M Ellis, PR Bowles… - Animal Feed Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study evaluated the production of two black soldier fly larval meals (BSFLMs) when
rearing the larvae on brewers' spent grains (BSFLM-B) or a commercially available substrate …

Nutrient digestibility of diets containing five different insect meals in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) and European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

M Mastoraki, N Panteli, YP Kotzamanis, L Gasco… - Animal Feed Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the recent years, insect meals have been studied as alternative feed ingredients for
aquafeeds, due to their adequate nutrient composition and low ecological footprint. These …