Artemia or Brine shrimp is a crustacean animal that lives in over 500 tropical and subtropical regions in the World. In Iran there are 12 regions of artemia habitats. Artemia in different stages of living normally exists for newly hatched shrimps, sturgeons, trouts, aquarium fishes as well as some crustaceans.However, artemia biomass is suitable protein for other animals such as poultry. Results indicated that artemia meal could be used as feedstuff in poultry and other farm animal diets, because of its high level of protein and high protein digestibility. Protein or amino acids content and metabolizable energy varies among different kinds of artemia present in various locations. This charactristics depends on, region, species, time of harvest, percentage of artemia mixture, because artemia of different ages showed different compositions.
Artemia, Brine shrimp, Protein
