Effect of feeding rotifers enriched with taurine on the growth and survival of larval amberjack Seriola dumerili

Effects of taurine supplementation in live feeds on larval rearing performance of California yellowtailSeriola lalandiand white seabassAtractoscion nobilis

“…Matsunari et al . () demonstrated that by enhancing taurine levels in rotifers being fed to larval Seriola dumerili , larval growth (to 7 dph) was significantly enhanced, but no differences were seen in larval survival. Other work completed with juvenile and adult fish further support the benefits of supplementing taurine when culturing Seriola spp.…”

“…A growing number of studies have demonstrated positive effects for dietary taurine supplementation in juvenile fish, especially as traditional fish meal sources are replaced in the diet with other plant and animal proteins. Fewer studies have focused on fish larvae (Chen, Takeuchi, Takahashi, Tomoda, Koisi & Kuwada ; Salze, McLean & Craig ; Matsunari, Hashimoto, Iwasaki, Oda, Masuda, Imaizumi, Teruya, Furuita, Yamamoto, Hamada & Mushiake ). Marine fish larvae typically consume planktonic prey items in the wild, such as copepods, that have been shown to contain high levels of taurine, suggesting that the physiological requirement for taurine may be high during this stage of development (Conceição, van der Meeren, Verreth, Evjen, Houlihan & Fyhn ; Helland, Nejstgaard, Humlen, Fyhn & Bamstedt ; van der Meeren, Olsen, Hamre & Fyhn ; Yamamoto, Teruya, Hara, Hokazono, Hashimoto, Suzuki, Iwashita, Matsunari, Furuita & Mushiake ; Maehre, Hamre & Elevoll ).…”

Progress on larval and juvenile nutrition to improve the quality and health of seawater fish: a review

“…The inclusion of inexpensive synthesized taurine in the list of designated feed additives in June 2009 has allowed for more effective use of this compound [89]. The taurine content in live foods and the dietary taurine requirements of various species of fish are summarized in Table 1 [90,91].…”

Biochemical composition of the promising live feed tropical calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus annandalei (Sewell 1919) cultured in Taiwanese outdoor aquaculture ponds

“…Overall, P. annandalei adult females and late stage nauplii show favourable contents of essential AAs needed for fish larvae growth, with more than half of their AA pool pertaining to essential AAs. Additionally, an abundance of free taurine and its precursor methionine in fish feed has resulted in increased growth in some fish species after intake (Salze et al 2011;Luo et al 2005;Matsunari et al 2013). Free taurine observed in P. annandalei nauplii and adult females revealed modest contents in comparison to what has been observed in e.g.…”