Alimentación alternativa en Alevines de especies nativas y promisorias de Colombia

Abstract

Aquatic organisms require high levels of protein in their diet, consequently, foods of animal and vegetable origin that contain it are used for its feeding, taking into account that it is digestible for the species. Fishmeal has traditionally been used as the main protein resource in diets, however, its high cost and increasing demand for growing aquaculture, as well as its use in feeding terrestrial species of culture is forcing nutritionists look for alternate sources of protein, both conventional and unconventional. The present work is a compilation of documents that report alternate sources of proteins, which can substitute the fish meal partially or totally in the aquaculture feed, mainly in the fry stage of native and promising species of Colombia. The available information highlights flours from legumes (vegetable protein) and other types of food, such as live food (zooplankton).