The importance of the brine shrimp, Artemia in larviculture
was recognised for the first time when Scale
(1933, Trans. Am. Fish. Soc.. 63 : 129-130) described
the value of the nauplii of Artemia as an ideal food for
fish fry. Later several investigators found that the freshly
hatched nauplii of the brine shrimp are the most suitable
and also very convenient food for the early larval
stages of various species of fishes and crustaceans
