“…In aquaculture, digestible dietary carbohydrates are among the less expensive sources of energy, and they are generally incorporated in fish diets as much as possible to produce lowcost aquafeed. As a better understanding of nutritional regulation of carbohydrate metabolism in fish would enable the efficient use of carbohydrates as an energy source to spare proteins for growth, nutritional regulation of glucose metabolism has been intensively studied in various fish species in the last decades (Panserat et al, 2000(Panserat et al, , 2001(Panserat et al, , 2009Polakof et al, 2012;Marandel et al, 2015;Kamalam et al, 2017;Seiliez et al, 2017;Boonanuntanasarn et al, 2018a,b). In order to improve the metabolic use of carbohydrates in carnivorous fish, generally known to be poor users of this nutrient, the concept of nutritional programming for carbohydrate metabolism has recently been demonstrated in rainbow trouts (Geurden et al, 2007(Geurden et al, , 2014Mennigen et al, 2013;Marandel et al, 2016a,b), sturgeon (Gong et al, 2015) and gilthead seabream (Rocha et al, 2016a,b).…”