Abstract
Abstract Hybrids of female striped bass Morone saxatilis and male white bass M. chrysops were stocked at 14,000 fish/ha in earthen ponds and fed an experimental diet supplementally sprayed (2.5% by weight) with either catfish oil (CO) or menhaden oil (MO). The sprayed diet contained n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA, with four or more double bonds) at 1.10% and 1.54% of diet for CO and MO, respectively. Fish were fed to apparent satiation twice daily for 212 d in three replicate 0.05-ha ponds per diet. There were no significant differences (P < 0.05) between CO and MO diets in mean total weight offish at harvest (590 and 585 g, respectively), percent weight gain (584% and 576%), survival (87% and 91%), or feed conversion (weight of feed as fed/fish weight gain: 2.50 and 2.31). Mean intraperitoneal fat (IPF) to body weight ratios of fish were not different (4.8% for CO and 4.4% for MO). Females had a significantly higher IPF ratio (5.2%) than males (4.7%) across both diets. There were no significant...
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