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Dietary utility of enzyme-treated fish meal for juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis

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In order to develop an artificial diet, the dietary utility of enzyme-treated fish meal was investigated for juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis (PBT). Diets containing each 63% of Chilean fish meal (FM), enzyme-treated chilean fish meal (EC) and enzyme-treated Peruvian fish meal (EP), with 10% bonito oil and raw sand lance Ammodytes personatus (SL) were fed to juvenile tuna six times per day for one week. In a different trial, diets EC and SL were fed to tuna six times per day for 2 weeks. Only diet EC sustained similar growth or caused lower survival and higher feed efficiency, hepato- and enterosomatic indices and final carcass lipid content as compared to those of SL. Diets FM and EP led to lower specific growth rate (SGR) but similar feed efficiency, survival and hepatosomatic index, yet higher enterosomatic index. Moreover, PBT fed diet EC for 2 weeks led to similar growth performance but higher final carcass and hepatic lipid contents, and plasma cholesterol and phospholipid levels than those fed SL. Carcass fatty acid composition of diet EC group had lower 20∶5 n-3 and 22∶6 n-3 levels than the SL group. These results revealed that EC, as a suitable dietary protein source, could sustain growth of PBT, while dietary bonito oil led to higher carcass lipid but lower accumulation of n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids.

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  1. Seung-Cheol Ji

    Present address: Jeju Sea Fisheries Research Institute, NFRDI, 690-192, Jeju, Korea

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  1. Fisheries Laboratory, Kinki University, Nachikatsuura, 649-5145, Wakayama, Japan

    Seung-Cheol Ji, Osamu Takaoka, Amal Kbiswas, Manabu Seoka, Keita Ozaki & Kenji Takii

  2. Faculty of Bioresources, Mie University, 514-8507, Tsu, Mie, Japan

    Jun Kohbara

  3. Fisheries Research Institute, Marubeni-Nisshin Feed Co. Ltd, Atsumi, 441-3605, Aichi, Japan

    Masaharu Ukawa

  4. Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi University, Nankoku, 783-8502, Kochi, Japan

    Sadao Shimeno & Hidetsuyo Hosokawa

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Ji, SC., Takaoka, O., Kbiswas, A. et al. Dietary utility of enzyme-treated fish meal for juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis . Fish Sci 74, 54–61 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1444-2906.2007.01475.x

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