D. Merrifield and E. Ringø (eds): Aquaculture nutrition: gut health, probiotics and prebiotics: Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2014, XVI + 465 pp, £130 (Hardback), ISBN: 978-0-470-67271-6 (also available as e-book)

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DOI 10.1007/s10499-014-9869-0

BOOK REVIEW

D. Merrield and E. Ring (eds): Aquaculture nutrition: gut health, probiotics and prebiotics

Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2014, XVI + 465 pp, 130 (Hardback), ISBN: 978-0-470-67271-6 (also available as e-book)

Malcolm Jobling

Received: 10 December 2014 / Accepted: 12 December 2014 / Published online: 17 December 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

The editors and contributors to Aquaculture Nutrition: Gut health, probiotics and prebiotics have been proponents and avid supporters of the use of probiotics and prebiotics in aquaculture for a number of years. Together they have written many original research papers on the use of probiotics and prebiotics in feeds for farmed sh and crustaceans. They have also published book chapters and overview articles on the subject; some of which have appeared almost contemporaneously with the book reviewed here. This means that those interested in the use of probiotics and prebiotics in animal production and aquaculture will probably be familiar with much of the material presented in the book and might already have most of the information to hand. Indeed, when reading the book, I quite often found myself asking havent I read this recently and where I have seen this information before? As such, the value of the book is not in the new material it contains; its main strength is that it is a compilation that draws together a considerable body of relevant information.

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