Effect of Aflatoxin B1 on growth performance of Clarias Gariepinus Fry (Burchell, 1822) in West Cameroon

“” IJAAR welcome all of you to submit your research paper for publication in the field of Agriculture, Agronomy, Horticulture etc. Please submit your manuscripts via Online submission panel .“” The high cost of fish feed these days leads the developing countries such as Cameroun to use inexpensive and cheap local by-products. However, their source and or their conservation could generate mycotoxins affecting the performances of fish production. This work was carried out from January to June 2014 at the teaching and research farm of the University of Dschang, consisted to evaluate the effect of local feed contaminated with aflatoxine B1 on the production performances of Clarias gariepinus. To do this, 270 fry (4±2g) distributed in three treatments T1 (10 ppb), T2 (17 ppb) and T3 (20 ppb) and in triplicat (30 fry/tank of 1m3) and feeded of 5% of lichtyobiomass-fed daily were used. The high source of aflatoxin B1 in each treatment was from contaminated chicken dropping. Aflatoxine B1 has negatively affected (P