Daily Feeding and Food Conversion Efficiency of the Diamond Turbot: An Analysis Based on Field Data
- 1 November 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 108 (6) , 530-535
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1979)108<530:dfafce>2.0.co;2
Abstract
The diamond turbot (H. guttulata) population from Anaheim Bay, California [USA] was analyzed by a model that describes feeding rates in a cyclical diel feeding fish and that allows the calculation of daily ration from field data. Diamond turbot over 25 g in body weight at 3.76% of their body weight per day and had an estimated gross growth efficiency based on 80% digestion of 12.0%; the population of 3400 diamond turbot ate 3690 kg/yr, mostly clam siphons and polychaetes.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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