Food and feeding habits of aquaculture candidate a potential crustacean of pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei, South East coast of India

Abstract

The foods are very essential of any organisms, basically its needs for growth, existence and culture aspects. Study of food and feeding habits of L. vannamei have manifold importance in fishery biology. The shrimp aquaculture has appeared in the last two decades primarily as a live holding and marketing strategy, to bring certainty to supply of high value L. vannamei. Still a number of species of marine shrimp are edible, the biggest and most highly esteemed species suitable for coastal aquaculture. Shrimp farmers also need to know how much feed their livestock have actually consumed but this can be difficult to judge and also the successful farming a detailed knowledge about the food and feeding habit is essential. The analysis of gut contents of L. vannamei provides information about particular shrimp in the ecosystem. © 2013 Varadharajan D, et al.