Includes bibliographies and indexes.; Adaptive aspects of energy allocation / Peter Calow -- Metabolic scope in fishes / Imants G. Priede -- The application of optimal foraging theory to feeding behaviour in fish / Colin R. Townsend and Ian J. Winfield -- Energentics of feeding and digestion / T.J. Pandian and E. Vivekanandan -- Laboratory methods in fish feeding and nutritional studies / Clive Talbot -- Protein and amino acid requirements / Albert G.J. Tacon and Colin B. Cowey -- The hormonal control of metabolism and feeding / Alan J. Matty and K.P. Lone -- Growth / Malcolm Jobling -- Energetics of reproduction / Robert J. Wootton -- Laboratory studies of energy budgets / Alan E. Brafield -- Field studies of energy budgets / N.M. Soofiani and A.D. Hawkins -- Energetics and fish farming / Brian Knights.