The use of poultry by-product meals in pelleted feed for humpback grouper
Published:October 20, 2008
Summary
Grouper farming, especially in Southeast Asia, is still heavily dependent on feeding with trash fish. The demand for trash fish is increasing steadily despite decreasing prey fish stocks in the world’s oceans and competing use for human consumption (Tacon et al., 2006). In order to sustain the rapidly expanding marine fish farming industry in Southeast Asia, more farmers are using commercial form...
The processing method will actually determine the biological value of the poultry byproduct. Although the amino acid profile cannot match that of a fish meal, but with the inclusion of synthesis amino acid the poultry byproduct can perform similarly to fish meal but the economical value and the availability in commercial quantity should be put into consideration.