Influence of Phosphorus in Rainbow Trout Diets on Phosphorus Discharges in Effluent Water

Abstract
Two experiments were conducted with rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss to investigate the influence of several diets and supplemental phosphorus on discharges of phosphorus in hatchery effluent water. A diet was formulated to contain no fish meal and a reduced level of non-phytin phosphorus (approximately 0.9%) provided, in part, by supplemental defluorinated rock phosphate, which has a low solubility in water. Feeding rainbow trout this diet supported 86% of the growth attained with a conventional hatchery diet while discharges of phosphorus in the effluents decreased by 40–51%.

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit: