• Udaybhanu Pandharinath Sirdeshmukh
• Dr.Vishwas S. Shembekar

Fish feed formulation is one of the most important area to work in aquaculture. Fish feed have the huge demand all over the world. But fishes having different life stages and needs different feed formulations. Fishes having four prominent life stages spawn, fry, fingerling and young fish and other life stages. In each life stage food and feeding habit is variable. Food and feeding behavior of usually different in different life stages in Indian Major Carps. Information on larval, fry and fingerling stages nutrition is less available and yet to optimize. Indian major carps, Catla, Rohu and Mrigal, all require a micro zooplankton diet initially, feed on progressively larger items as they grow in size and make a gradual transition to the appropriate adult feeding habit as fingerlings. A common feature of all the early life stages of all cultured carps is their rapidity of growth and development from small hatchling to large active post larval stage and fry stage. Carps fry feed on both living as well as nonliving food includes food supplements those provide additional nutritional demand of nutrition for rapid and healthy growth in fishes.. In addition to the provision of live food organisms, supplemental feeds such as the microencapsulated egg diet, yeasts and proteinaceous flours have also seen some use. So current study deal with a study of life stage specific feed formulations.

Indian Major Carps, Fish feed formulation, fry, fingerlings, supplementary diet.

"Feed Formulation and Optimization of Fish Feed for Different Developmental Stages of Indian Major Carps from Spawn to Marketable Size Fish Stage", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.654-659, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908095.pdf

"Feed Formulation and Optimization of Fish Feed for Different Developmental Stages of Indian Major Carps from Spawn to Marketable Size Fish Stage", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp654-659, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908095.pdf