New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Fattening of wild short-finned eels, Anguilla australis schmidtii Phillipps

Tetuo Tomiyama*

J. L. Sumnerj

G. W. KiTSON

I. R. Perry

Lincoln College, Canterbury, New Zealand

Abstract Short-finned wild eels fed an artificial diet containing either a low (5%) or a high (20%) oil content were found to increase their mass by an average of more than 30% after a 34-day feeding period; the lipid content of the eels' muscle was also increased from about 10% to around 20%.

-New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 1979, 13 (3): 377-378
Received 10 October 1978; revision received 30 April 1979

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