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AQUACULTURE RESEARCH
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 96-101Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2005.01402.x
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Pike; Esox lucius; fatty acid profile; artificial diet; prey fish; intensive rearing
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Fat content and fatty acid profile of two pike yearling groups grown on two different diets were compared. The groups originated from culture on artificial feed. One group (cultured pike fed first pellet then prey-fish (PF)) was fed with natural food, live prey-fish, while the other one (cultured pike fed exclusively pellet (PP)) by trout feed through a 3-month experimental period. Growth of pike was lower with PP than with PF. The trout feed resulted in an increase of the fat content of fillet and the formation of abdominal fat depots. Feeding of natural food decreased the fat content. The proportion of the saturated fatty acids in fillet was higher in the (PF) group. The n-6 fatty acids (arachidonic C20:4n-6 and docosatetraenic C22:4n-6 acids) were lowest in PP-fed pike. Regarding total n-3 fatty acids ratio there was no significant difference between the groups, but the level of alpha-linolenic (C:18:3n-3) acid showed significant difference among groups.
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