Fish Energetics: New Perspectives

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Abstract

One: Evolutionary Aspects of Energy Budgets -- 1. Adaptive Aspects of Energy Allocation -- 2. Metabolic Scope in Fishes -- Two: Food and Feeding -- 3. The Application of Optimal Foraging Theory to Feeding Behaviour in Fish -- 4. Energetics of Feeding and Digestion -- 5. Laboratory Methods in Fish Feeding and Nutritional Studies -- 6. Protein and Amino Acid Requirements -- 7. The Hormonal Control of Metabolism and Feeding -- Three: Production -- 8. Growth -- 9. Energetics of Reproduction -- Four: Energy Budgets -- 10. Laboratory Studies of Energy Budgets -- 11. Field Studies of Energy Budgets -- 12. Energetics and Fish Farming -- Systematic Index.