Abstract

Aquaculture represents a growing sector worldwide, in 2018, approximately 88 percent (156 million tons) of global fish production was used for direct human consumption. In addition, global aquaculture production reached a new all-time high of 114.5 million tons of live weight in 2018 (The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020, 2020). All this shows the economic and nutritional importance of this sector, especially in small-scale fisheries where local communities live directly or indirectly from fishing and are forced to fish both to supply the local market, but also to feed their families (Measuring the Contribution of Small-Scale Aquaculture, n.d.). But due to overfishing, in some Caribbean countries like Haiti, the coastal fish biomass is dropping, especially for fish species like parrotfishes, snappers, and groupers, and currently some news invertebrate marine species such as: Holothuroidea. In this context, sustainable aquaculture could be one of the alternatives to fighting overfishing. But aquaculture sector is less developed, even though potentialities of marine areas and freshwater areas are available. Some vegetable and non-vegetables raw materials in terms of aquafeed are already available in Haiti, two of them are: worms and Moringa leaves rich in proteins. The main objective of this poster is to present the nutritional values of some raw materials available in Caribbean countries to help to produce feed for fish in marine or freshwater aquaculture.

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