Gastrointestinal passage rate in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fed dry or soaked feed. A CREATE project
Aas, Turid Synnøve; Ytrestøyl, Trine; Hatlen, Bjarne; Sixten, Hanne Jorun; Hillestad, Marie; Åsgård, Torbjørn Einar
Summary
Atlantic salmon was fed a commercial-like diet either as is (92% dry matter) or soaked for 2 h in sea water prior to feeding (70% dry matter). The salmon showed large individual variation in gastrointestinal passage rate and few significant differences between the two diets were revealed. However, the soaked feed resulted in a significantly higher gastric evacuation rate than the dry diet.
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Publication details
Publisher : Nofima
Publication type : Nofima’s reports
Series : Nofima rapportserie
Year : 2013