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Aquacult Int (2011) 19:595596 DOI 10.1007/s10499-010-9367-y
BOOK REVIEW
G.M. Turchini, W.-K. Ng and D.R. Tocher (eds): Fish oil replacement and alternative lipid sources in aquaculture feeds
CRC Press (Taylor & Francis), Boca Raton, 2011, XVIII + 533 pp, 95/US$149.95 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-4398-0862-7
Malcolm Jobling
Received: 6 August 2010 / Accepted: 6 August 2010 / Published online: 19 August 2010 The Author(s) 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Within the space of just over 500 pages, made up of 15 multi-author chapters, this book provides a comprehensive overview on the production and use of sh oils, vegetable oils, terrestrial animal fats, and several unconventional lipid sources in nsh aquaculture and the aquafeed industry. All chapters are tightly packed with factual information, and all are also extensively referenced, with quite a strong emphasis on recently published review articles, original papers, and reports. The editors express a hope that the book will serve as a reference work for nutritionists, oil chemists, seafood processors and suppliers, policy makers and personnel involved with agriculture, sheries, aquaculture, and the aquafeed and edible-oil industries; practitioners in most of these areas will nd something of value in the book, but some will almost certainly have much of the information already to hand in the form of published reviews and via access to websites. As such, the main value of the book may not be in the new information it...