Effect of dietary protein-energy levels and fish initial sizes on growth rate, development and production of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus L.

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1414-1421

  Sweilum, Mohamed A ^a,c   Abdella, Mohamed M ^b   Salah El Din, Shady A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Egypt)

^b ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c Kafr Shouker ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

Carcass traits; Feed utilization; Growth; Nile tilapia; Production; Proximate composition

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; BODY SIZE; GROWTH RATE; PROTEIN;

OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TILAPIA;

EID: 27244445783     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2005.01362.x     Document Type: Article

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