| The daily food supply is usually considered as the main limiting factor for large scale productions of young marine fish.Collecting natural plancton at sea is an easy way of providing small scale tests with a food of good quality. But the method becomes hardly dependable beyond the scale of the aquarium.Large scale production of juvenile fish became possible, during the last decades, with the development of mass production techniques for some food organisms. Among these organisms, the Branchiopod Artemia salina and the Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis undeniably overcome ; meanwhile the culture of Copepods,the most interesting part of natural plankton, remains mainly at laboratory stage. [NOT CONTROLLED OCR] |
