New doctoral thesis about marine aquaculture in Cambodia

On June 13 Sorphea Sen defended her doctoral thesis "Evaluation on brewery yeast and insect meal (black soldier fly and cricket meal) to replace trash fish in the diet for Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer) in Cambodia". Her Opponent was Professor David Little, from the University of Stirling in Scotland, Great Britain.

The aim with this thesis was to promote sustainable development of marine aquaculture in Cambodia by finding local feed resources that could replace fish meal in feed to Asian seabass. Sorphea has evaluated microbial protein (brewer´s yeast) and insect meal (from black soldier fly and crickets), with respect to their nutrient content and their potential as fish feed. Overall the results indicated that both black soldier fly and cricket full-fat meal are potential replacers of fishmeal and trash fish, in the diet of Asian seabass. 

Sorphea has performed her research in the south of Cambodia at the Marine Aquaculture Research and Development Centre.

Linc to the doctoral thesis (pdf)