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Table 1 Proximate and amino acid compositions of the fish meals used to test diets

From: Apparent digestibility coefficients of the extruded pellet diets containing various fish meals for olive flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus

 

Fish meals

HM

AM

MM

SM-A

SM-B

TM

PM-A

PM-B

Proximate analysis (% in dry matter)

 Dry matter

93.3

92.2

92.4

91.3

94.0

92.0

93.7

93.1

 Crude protein

73.4

67.3

76.6

71.5

71.0

62.7

74.7

63.3

 Crude lipid

10.4

8.6

6.8

10.0

10.2

10.6

5.9

5.4

 Ash

16.6

19.7

16.7

16.0

14.6

20.1

15.7

26.4

 Gross energy (kcal/g)

4.9

4.5

4.6

4.7

4.8

4.3

4.7

3.9

Essential amino acids (% in protein)

 Arg

6.4

6.0

6.5

7.1

6.4

6.4

7.1

7.0

 His

2.8

2.0

4.5

2.5

3.0

3.3

2.5

2.5

 Ile

4.4

4.0

4.5

4.1

4.7

4.2

3.9

4.2

 Leu

8.0

6.6

7.9

7.8

8.3

7.6

8.0

8.0

 Lys

8.4

7.2

8.6

5.8

8.9

9.3

5.7

5.3

 Met + Cys

4.2

3.9

4.3

2.7

4.3

4.0

2.8

2.9

 Phe + Tyr

7.6

6.3

7.5

8.0

8.0

7.2

8.3

8.3

 Thr

4.8

4.8

4.7

4.2

4.9

4.8

4.9

4.3

 Val

5.9

4.9

5.0

4.4

5.3

5.6

4.3

4.7

  1. HM herring fish meal, AM anchovy fish meal, MM mackerel fish meal, SM-A sardine fish meal-A, SM-B sardine fish meal-B, TM tuna meal, PM-A pollock fish meal-A, PM-B pollock fish meal-B