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- Title
Long-term evaluation of extruded diets compared with raw fish moist diet for growing Korean rockfish, Sebastes schlegeli (Hilgendorf).
- Authors
Kim, K-W.; Wang, X.; Choi, S-M.; Bai, S.C.; Choi, Y-H.; Choi, S-H.
- Abstract
A long-term experiment was conducted in sea cages to compare three experimental extruded pellet (EP) diets with a raw fish moist pellet (MP) diet for Korean rockfish, Sebastes schlegeli (Hilgendorf). White fishmeal (WFM), soybean meal (SM) and fishmeal analogue (BAIFA-M™)-based experimental EP diets were formulated to be isonitrogenous and isocaloric with 50% crude protein (CP) with available energy of 16.7 kJ g[sup -1] diet. An MP diet made of 80% frozen horse mackerel + 20% commercial binder meal was also included in the experiment. The proportions of the major protein ingredients in three experimental EP diets were as follows: WFM diet, 100% WFM; SM diet, 70% WFM + 30% SM; BAIFA-M™ diet, 70% WFM + 30% BAIFA-M™. The experiment was divided into three periods according to fish size: period I, initial weight of 20.2 ± 3.6 g (mean ± SD); period II, initial weight of 57.6 ± 4.7 g (mean ± SD); period III, initial weight of 96.3 ± 6.9 g (mean ± SD). There were no significant differences in weight gain, feed efficiency ratio, thermal-unit growth coefficient, specific growth rate, haemoglobin, or haematocrit among fish that were fed the four diets during all three periods. However, fish that were fed the MP diet had a lower survival rate than the fish that were fed the other three EP diets for all periods. These results strongly suggest that EP diets could be developed to replace MP diet for the grow-out stage of production of Korean rockfish without adverse effects on growth performance.
- Subjects
STRIPED bass; FISH feeds; ANIMAL nutrition
- Publication
Aquaculture Research, 2002, Vol 33, Issue 12, p979
- ISSN
1355-557X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2109.2002.00750.x