Biomass production of brine shrimp artemia fed with jackfruit seed based extract enriched with lecithin (JSB-L+)

Abstract

Brine shrimps Artemia nauplii and decapsulated cysts have remained the first choice for the first feeding of fishlarvae, under intensive culture. However, compared with freshly hatched nauplii, the nutritional value of on-grown and adult Artemia is much exceptional. The increasing cost of Artemia is a constraint to fish farming among resource poor farmers particularly in the developing world, which has necessitated the need for alternative feeds. It has been shown that most of the feed used in the process of on-grown Artemia is costly and difficult to prepare. The use of jackfruit seed, a common agriculture waste product is a potential alternative to substitute the use microalgae Spirulina in the biomass production of Artemia