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Effect of Dietary Ingredient Substitution on Dorsal Fin Erosion of Steelhead
Author(s) -
Lellis William A.,
Barrows Frederic T.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
north american journal of aquaculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.432
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1548-8454
pISSN - 1522-2055
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8454(2000)062<0135:eodiso>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - dorsal fin , biology , fishery , ingredient , zoology , canthaxanthin , meal , rainbow trout , juvenile , astaxanthin , fish fin , food science , starter , fish meal , aquaculture , fish <actinopterygii> , carotenoid , ecology
A feeding trial was conducted to determine the effect of supplementing a diet based on hydrolyzed fish meal with either 6% chitin (as ground krill shell), 6% squid meal, or 200 mg carotenoid pigment (canthaxanthin) per kilogram on dorsal fin erosion in juvenile steelhead Oncorhynchus mykiss. Three hundred fry in triplicate tanks were fed one of the four test diets, and 300 fry in a single tank were fed a commercial trout starter diet. The feeding trial was conducted for 15 weeks at a water temperature of 15°C. Growth was significantly higher ( P < 0.05) for fish fed the diet containing chitin than for those fed other feeds. Dorsal fin index (100 × mean dorsal fin height/total fish length) was similar among fish consuming the hydrolyzed fish meal diets but lower for fish consuming the commercial formulation. Results suggest that removal of bones from fish meal may influence dorsal fin condition in steelhead, perhaps through altered dietary mineral composition or form.