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FI:ISR/73/003/4
May 1977

ISRAEL
NUTRITION OF MARINE FISH IN THE REGION OF ELAT, ISRAEL
A report prepared for the Development of Marine Farming Project

by
Samuel P. Meyers
Consultant
(Marine Farming, Fish Nutrition and Feed Formulation)

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 1977

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Food and Agriculture Organisation is greatly indebted to the personnel of the Mariculture Laboratory IOLR and the H. Steinitz Marine Biology Laboratory at Slat for their invaluable cooperation and technical assistance in providing data for this report. Appreciation is also expressed for the continuing diet/nutrition research and development collaboration in progress between the Elat facility and the Consultant at the Department of Food Science, Louisiana State University.

This informal report is one of a series of reports prepared during the course of the UNDP project identified on the title page. The conclusions and recommendations given in the report are those considered appropriate at the time of its preparation. They may be modified in the light of further knowledge gained at subsequent stages of the project.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Terms of Reference

1.2 Background Information

2. DIETARY/FORMULATION ASPECTS

2.1 Discussion of Various Diets

2.2 Fry Diet Preparation Procedure

3. PROJECTED FRY EXPERIMENTS (SPRING 1976)

4. PROJECTED GROW-OUT EXPERIMENTS (1976 – 1977)

5. PRIORITY RESEARCH PROJECTS ON Sparus auratus

5.1 Recruitment

5.2 Nutrition