Channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus .

Abstract

The nutrient requirements (proteins and amino acids, energy, lipids and fatty acids, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals), practical diets (fry and fingerling diets, foodfish diets, broodfish diets, winter diets, medicated diets, and all plant diets) and feeding practices (feeding allowance/feeding rates, feeding methods, feeding frequency, feeding schedule, winter feeding, feeding diseased fish and feeding caged fish) of channel catfish are discussed.