Soybean Meal-Eels

Twenty-three percent of the fish meal was replaced with protein from soybean meal, lupin meal, corn gluten meal or meat meal in nutritionally balanced experimental diets for juvenile Australian short-finned eel. Results indicated that the apparent digestibility of protein was significantly (P<0.001) higher for soybean meal and lupin meal than the control, corn gluten meal and meat meal diets. The researchers concluded that fish meal could be replaced by soybean meal, corn gluten meal and meat meal without compromising growth rates of the Australian short-finned eel.

Engin, K. and C.G. Carter. 2005. Fish meal replacement by plant and animal by-products in diets for the Australian short-finned eel, Anguilla australis australis (Richardson). Aquaculture Res. 36(5): 445-454.