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Swimming Physiology of Fish || Metabolic Fuel Utilization During Swimming: Optimizing Nutritional Requirements for Enhanced Performance

✍ Scribed by Palstra, Arjan P.; Planas, Josep V.


Book ID
120398985
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2012
Tongue
German
Weight
659 KB
Edition
2013
Category
Article
ISBN
3642310494

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✦ Synopsis


In light of mounting fishing pressures, increased aquaculture production and a growing concern for fish well-being, improved knowledge on the swimming physiology of fish and its application to fisheries science and aquaculture is needed. This book presents recent investigations into some of the most extreme examples of swimming migrations in salmons, eels and tunas, integrating knowledge on their performance in the laboratory with that in their natural environment. For the first time, the application of swimming in aquaculture is explored by assessing the potential impacts and beneficial effects. The modified nutritional requirements of “athletic” fish are reviewed as well as the effects of exercise on muscle composition and meat quality using state-of-the-art techniques in genomics and proteomics. The last chapters introduce zebrafish as a novel exercise model and present the latest technologies for studying fish swimming and aquaculture applications.