Insect-Based Protein : Future Promising Protein Source for Fish Cultured

NUGROHO, Rudy Agung

[ABSTRACT]As one of the vital component feed used in fisheries, fishmeal (FM) is generally added to the fish diet to enhance fish growth, digestive performance and absorption of nutrients. This addition contributes significantly to the variable production cost in the aquaculture industry. Moreover, expanded production of carnivorous species requiring high protein, high-energy feeds will further tax global fish meal. Thus, research based on the low-cost budget for feed operating cost should be strategized to assist aquaculturists in enhancing fish productivity. In addition, suitable alternative feed ingredients will have to be utilized to provide the essential nutrients and energy needed to fuel the growth of aquaculture production. To this effect, the use of insect-based protein sources to replace FM that often scarce, expensive, limited availability, and leads to high fish production costs is alternative ways and has been gaining momentum. Currently, Insects have been proposed as one of the potential future protein sources of protein because of the production of insects is highly sustainable in comparison to the production of cattle, pork, and poultry Farming insects is characterized by higher food conversion efficiencies, lower environmental impact, and higher potential to be grown on waste streams. Though some interesting options such as seaweed, Pea protein based products soylent (Liquid food) and Chirps (Cricket Chips) has attracted several researchers on last year, the experiments regarding the use of insect-based protein are gaining a momentum in order to explore and develop the insects as an alternative source of protein for fish culture.

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/107830/

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/107830/ceresIntlSympo-24-P132.pdf

Chiba University. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing

千葉大学環境リモートセンシング研究センター

Presentation

Proceedings of the CEReS international symposium = CEReS国際シンポジウム資料集

24

132

139

2016-11-21

eng

publisher

Proceedings of the symposium on environmental remote sensing