Abstract
European whitefish are widely used for artificial reproduction in aquaculture. Relevant is the search for alternative solutions for protein supplements in the composition of animal feed for its cultivation. A promising source of valu-able protein is fish waste from canning industries. In the Kaliningrad region, 80% of Russian canned food "Sprats in oil" is produced. The daily amount of sprat waste is 2-10 tons. The use of protein products of hydrolysis of smoked sprat heads instead of a part of fishmeal in compound feeds for whitefish juveniles was studied in this work. Hy-drolysis was carried out by a high-temperature method in an aqueous medium to obtain two types of protein sup-plements. In the first experiments, a 5% low molecular weight peptide supplement with a protein content of 82.7% was introduced into the model feed instead of the corresponding amount of fishmeal. In the second series of exper-iments, a 10% protein-mineral supplement was introduced with a protein content of 54.5% and mineral substances of 24.0%. The experiments were carried out in a closed aquaculture system based on AtlantNIRO. After 56 days of feeding, the fish breeding, morphobiological and organosomatic parameters of the fish were comparatively studied. . The promising potential of additives as feed components has been established. The introduction of a 5% peptide additive led to an increase in the fry survival rate. The use of a 10% protein-mineral supplement resulted in higher growth rates and lower feed ratios. In both experiments, there was no negative effect on the growth and morpho-physiology of the studied fish. For more reliable results, further study of alternative amounts of inclusion of these additives in the feed is required.
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