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Record W4410546370 · doi:10.5772/intechopen.1009140

New Perspectives in Fisheries: The Use of Insects in Aquaculture

2025· book-chapter· en· W4410546370 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Isaac M. Osuga, Catherine Nyambune Maindi, Vincent Mwashi, Chrysantus M. Tanga

Bibliographic record

VenueAgricultural sciences. · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicInsect Utilization and Effects
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersAustralian Centre for International Agricultural ResearchNovo Nordisk FondenBundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und EntwicklungGlobal Affairs CanadaBill and Melinda Gates FoundationEuropean CommissionStyrelsen för Internationellt UtvecklingssamarbeteNovo NordiskGovernment of the Republic of Kenya
KeywordsFisheryAquacultureGeographyBiologyFish <Actinopterygii>

Abstract

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In the face of climate change and variability and the need to enhance aquaculture production sustainability, production and utilization of novel feed resources for aquaculture while maintaining or contributing to environmental sustainability is critical. Insects have been shown to produce critical biomass suitable for animal feed with minimal environmental footprints. The insect biomass has been shown to be of high nutritional quality and therefore can be used as feed for fish. Fish feed formulations have been successfully done and incorporated diets for various fish species with very positive results. The incorporation of the insect meals in aquafeeds has also been shown to reduce the cost of fish feeds and improve the overall profitability of fish farming enterprises. In this chapter, the utilization of insect meals in the formulation of aquafeeds and the effect on the performance of fish is presented. This includes the replacement of fishmeal as the main animal protein source in fish feeds and the nutritional quality of insect meals as important sources of proteins for green, profitable, and sustainable aquaculture. It is certain that in the near future, large-scale insect farming and processing to produce insect meals as an ingredient of fish feeds will have positive impact on the sustainability and profitability of aquaculture.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.061

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0180.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.070
GPT teacher head0.229
Teacher spread0.159 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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