Effects of Supplementing Fish Meal with Garden Snail
The feeding cost of fish takes 60% or two third
of the total operational cost in fish farming (Lovell
1981, NRC 1983, Niamat and Jafri 1984, Akiyama
1988). This has been a major factor affecting the
development and expansion of Aquaculture
enterprise in Africa. The success of fish farming
depends invariably on provision of suitable and
economical fish feed. A survey of fish farms in
Nigeria in 1995 showed 86% of fish farms do not use
standard supplementary feed due to high cost of
production (Eyo 1995).