Journal of Aquaculture Research & Development

Abstract

Science of Advance in Aqua Farming Study of Food and Feeding Habits of Jumbo Tiger Shrimp, Penaeus monodon (Fabricius, 1798) from Parangipettai, South East Coast of India

D Varadharajan and P Soundarapandian

Food is required to produce energy to maintain in order to live and improve food habits of the species. The land food production is influences the disruptions and distribution is a major source of hunger and malnutrition. The people had a starvation and finally are attaining food deficiency diseases. The food from marine origin is high when compared in land food. Though, the marine food items can occur to shortage when over-capitalized capture fisheries, climate change and pollution lead to resource depletion. Aquaculture is playing an important mechanism for poverty alleviation and food security. An ectothermic animal of shrimp P. monodon are important for aqua farming practices in all over of the world. Rearing species the farmers are responsible for providing access to adequate food to eliminate hunger and malnutrition. Food is a major source of energy budget. Which food is habitually like a rearing organism is a difficult to judge. Successful farming a thorough knowledge about food and feeding habits of the rearing organisms is very important ones. In the present study, food and feeding habits of P. monodon were undertaken respectively. Analysis of the examined gut contents revealed that Crustacean, Fish, Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, Amphipods, Isopods, Polychaetes, Bivalves, Gastropods, Nematodes, Supplementary feed, Detritus, Sand and Miscellaneous as a main food items were observed in the P. monodon from Parangipettai coastal farming environment. The food and feeding habits of shrimp are different from month to month. Young ones of P. monodon it consists of preys mainly on plant origin and adults are preferred preys on animal origin. The results clearly indicate that, P. monodon is a considered highly omnivorous detrivore. In the information are useful for the shrimp culture with intensive, semi-intensive and mass scale practices in anywhere of the world.