Better food for larval cod

摘要

Growing big and strong is all about getting the right nutrients. In nature, cod larvae eat tiny copepods, packed full of zinc, selenium, manganese and copper, all of which are important minerals for the larvae. However, it is not easy to obtain copepods for aquaculture, so farmed cod larvae are often fed rotifers, a different group of microscopic aquatic organisms that are easy to culture in large amounts.