Journal
AQUACULTURE NUTRITION
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 423-430Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2095.2007.00546.x
Keywords
cottonseed meal; iron; olive founder; phosphorus; soybean meal
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- Basic Research Program of the Korea Science and Engineering foundation [R01-2005-000-10982-0]
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A long-term feeding experiment was conducted to investigate the use of cottonseed and soybean meal (CS) with iron and phosphorus supplements in diets for olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). Olive flounder with an initial average size of 28.5 +/- 0.35 g (mean +/- SD) were divided into 15 groups (three tanks per dietary treatment) and fed 480 g kg(-1) crude protein diets in which each of five isonitrogenous diets was formulated to contain different levels of cottonseed/soybean meal (1 : 1) to replace fish meal (FM) with iron and phosphorus supplementations. The five experimental diets were as follows: diet 1 (control), 0%CS; diet 2, 20%CS; diet 3, 30%CS; diet 4, 30%CS + Fe & P; and diet 5, 40%CS + Fe&P. After 26 weeks of feeding trial, no significant differences were observed in weight gain, feed utilization and survival among all the treatments. The total gossypol accumulation in liver of fish fed diets supplemented with iron was significantly lower than that of fish fed diets without supplementation of iron. The results indicate that the addition of iron in diets could prevent the absorption of free gossypol. The findings in this study suggest that dietary supplements of iron and phosphorus could increase the inclusion of cottonseed and soybean meal for FM replacement in diets for marine fish species.
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