Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nutritional requirements and dietary formulation -- Nutrient classes and energy metabolism -- Nutritional requirements -- Dietary ingredients and feed formulation -- Nutrient interactions and fish health -- Fish nutrition -- Physiological energetics: feeding, metabolism and growth -- Introduction to energetics -- Ingestion, absorption and excretion -- Respiration and metabolism -- Production and growth -- Environmental factors and growth -- Biotic factors and growth performance -- Bioenergetics -- Environmental tolerances and preferences. Environmental tolerances: general introduction -- Temperature -- Dissolved gases -- Pollutants and toxic chemicals -- Environmental stressors -- Adaptations to the environment.