A comparative study on the nutritional value of three Polychaete species used in Shrimp Aquaculture

The potential use of polychaete worms are as a dietary source protein, lipid, amino acids, and vitamins for aquaculture species also used alternative feeds fish meal oils. Many recent studies have been documented the nutritional benefits polychaetes species, their satisfactory food intake reproductive performance in brood stock.Most were hatcheries wild caught. commercial harvesting may leads to disturbance benthic community ecosystem depleting population ecosystem. Further development culture is therefore economic importance beyond that associated bait supply industry which acted initial catalyst this development. Hence, present study has made with three different assess value one from imported (Nereis virens) two locally available (Perenereis cultrifera Glycera sp) uses shrimp industry.Key words : Polychaete worms, Perenereis fatty acids. Minerals.