The floating feed revolution

Published: October 6, 2008

Summary

Tilapia is the second-most important group of farmed fish after carp. It is farmed in at least 85 countries, with the major part of the production coming from Asia (China) and Latin America (Ecuador, Honduras and Costa Rica). According to the U.S. National Fisheries Institute, farmed tilapia ranked 5 on its 2007 “Top Ten” list of the most consumed fish and seafood in the United ...

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Uchechukwu Enyidi

3 de diciembre de 2008

Please, in as much as we have wonderful extruders in use these days. I would like a system where we can comfortably control the temperature of the at the cooking pot. Some extruders have such high temperatures that certain cabohydrate binders and some protein get over expanded over cooked respectively. The effects of these are that resulting feed become less nutritional to the fish. I intend to post an article on this soon from my last experience in preparying some aqua feed using certain kind of extruder.

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Arshaq Ramzee

11 de diciembre de 2008

An excellent article explaining finer points of feed manufacturing, but it also looks like an advertisement for a certain company.

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Alabi Kehinde

Vetstock nig ltd.

11 de diciembre de 2008

The article should have opened our eyes to the danger of extruded feed in terms of the quality of the finished feed to that of the sinking feed that has not undergo high heat operation in respect to their performance on fish, but you digress into different types of extruders.

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