Soybean
Meal-Aquaculture
The digestible energy and the apparent digestibility coefficients of
nutrients in several common feed ingredients were determined using juvenile
haddock. Young haddock weighing about 94 grams were fed practical fish
meal-based diets for five weeks and then assigned to a reference diet
or experimental diet containing 30 percent test ingredient. Chromic
oxide was used as the inert digestion marker. The following results
were reported:
| DIGESTIBLE ENERGY | APPARENT DIGESTIBILITY COEFFICIENTS | |||
| Protein | Organic Matter | Lipid | ||
| Herring Meal | 18.3MJ/kg | 95.9% | 95.9% | 97.9% |
| Shrimp Meal | 18.0 | 92.2 | 89.0 | 83.0 |
| Crab Meal | 17.8 | 92.3 | 72.6 | 57.4 |
| Soybean Meal | 12.4 | 82.0 | 68.9 | 62.0 |
| Canola Meal | 10.9 | 83.0 | 58.9 | 87.2 |
| Corn Gluten Meal | 8.8 | 73.5 | 54.9 | 55.8 |
The authors concluded that based upon its high crude protein
content and nutrient apparent digestibility coefficients and digestible
energy content, properly processed dehulled soybean meal was found to
be a good plant protein supplement to partially replace herring meal
in haddock feed formulations.
Tibbetts, S.M., S.P. Lall and J.E. Milley. 2004. Apparent digestibility
of common feed ingredients by juvenile haddock, Melanogrammus aeglefinus
L. Aquaculture Research 35(7): 643-651.
