Author(s)

Jinghui Li¹, Lin Ma², Zhenyan Cheng¹, Dongqing Bai¹, Xiuting Qiao¹, Jinhui Sun^1*

¹Tianjin Key Lab of Aqua-Ecology and Aquaculture, College of Fisheries, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, China.
²Tianjin Fishery Research Institute, Tianjin, China.

The effect of different carbohydrate-to-lipid ratios in feeds on the growth performance and organosomatic indices of Atlantic salmon, Salmon salar, was determined in this experiment. Four iso- energetic feeds were manufactured with increasing carbohydrate level (18%, 21%, 14%, 26%). Lipid level was decreasing from 14% to 11% for each diet for energetic balance. Fish were reared in triplicate tanks for each diet treatment for 49 days. The diet which contained 26% carbohydrate and 11% lipid provided the highest specific growth rate (SGR = 0.66% ± 0.04% per day) to the fish. However, the feed efficiency (FER) ranked from 0.71 to 0.91 had no significant differences between diets. Similarly, the values of condition index (K), relative gut length (RGL) and hepatosomatic index (HSI) had no significant differences between groups. The relationship between liver and carcass weight showed that with the increasing of fish carcass weight, the liver weight increased. According to this experiment, it suggests that based on an optimum level of carbohydrate in diet, the juvenile salmon has a better growth fed by a diet with a higher carbohydrate-to-lipid ratio.

Atlantic Salmon, Carbohydrate, Lipid, Growth Performance, Organosomatic Indices

Li, J. , Ma, L. , Cheng, Z. , Bai, D. , Qiao, X. and Sun, J. (2015) The Effects of Growth Performance and Organosomatic Indices of Atlantic Salmon Juvenile by Using Different Carbohydrate-to-Lipid Ratios in Feeds. World Journal of Engineering and Technology, 3, 24-29. doi: 10.4236/wjet.2015.34C003.