Effect of shrimp waste extracted chitin on growth and some biochemical parameters of the Nile tilapia

Abstract

Capture fisheries is the utilization of the usable aquatic organisms by the public with or without permissions (El-Sayed, 2006). Aquaculture is the farming of marine and freshwater organisms under controlled conditions. It is a highly growing food production sector (Ahmed and Thompson, 2019). Its global production of fish in 2018 was approximately 179 million tons (FAO, 2020). Farmed Fish are a chief source of food for poor people (Stead, 2019). It is a cheap form of animal protein (Nölle et al., 2020). Due to overfishing, fisheries stock worldwide is largely exploited. As the aquaculture become the main source to cope the fish demand, there is an awareness to increase its productivity with the increase of human population (Tidwell and Allan, 2001; Gephart et al., 2020). Tilapia is regarded as the second most farmed fish all-over the world ARTICLE INFO

Potential of shrimp waste meal and insect exuviae as sustainable sources of chitin for fish feeds

“…Chitin and chitosan supplementation in the diet, indeed, elevates growth rates and feed efficiencies and improves disease resistance in several fish species, including rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), grey mullet (Liza ramada), red sea bream (Pagrus major), Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica), and yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata) (Ahmed et al, 2021;Dawood et al, 2020;Elserafy et al, 2021;Kono et al, 1987;Qin et al, 2014;Shi et al, 2020). Despite these positive effects, it is generally accepted that chitin is a limiting factor, constraining the use of insect meals in aquafeeds.…”

Assessing the Influence of Dietary Pediococcus acidilactici Probiotic Supplementation in the Feed of European Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) (Linnaeus, 1758) on Farm Water Quality, Growth, Feed Utilization, Survival Rate, Body Composition, Blood Biochemical Parameters, and Intestinal Histology

“…Furthermore, they provide essential growth factors, vitamins, fatty acids, and amino acids [37]. Several studies have shown that probiotics can be useful in a variety of fish species such as snook, Rohu, red sea bream, Nile tilapia, rainbow trout, catfish, and sea bass [38][39][40][41][42][43][44].…”

Physiological Response of Grower African Catfish to Dietary Black Soldier Fly and Mealworm Meal

“…It was confirmed that the growth performance, FCR, and SGR of Nile tilapia decreased as the dietary chitin increased [ 71 ]. Chitin content higher than 10% decreased the growth performance, and up to 5% increased the growth of Nile tilapia [ 72 ]. The other reason might be associated with high calcium and phosphorous levels [ 73 ], which is the case in our control diet as well.…”