Necessity of dietary taurine supplementation for preventing green liver symptom and improving growth performance in yearling red sea bream Pagrus major fed nonfishmeal diets based on soy protein concentrate |
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Authors: | Shusaku Takagi Hisashi Murata Takanobu Goto Hideo Hatate Makoto Endo Hirofumi Yamashita Hisashi Miyatake Masaharu Ukawa |
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Institution: | 1. Ehime Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station, Uwajima, Ehime, 798-0104, Japan 5. Ehime Fisheries Research Center, Uwajima, Ehime, 798-0104, Japan 2. Faculty of Agriculture, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan 3. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Numazu College of Technology, 3600, Numazu, Shizuoka, 410-8501, Japan 6. Faculty of Marine Science, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Minato, Tokyo, 108-8477, Japan 4. Taiyo Feed Co. Ltd, Koutou, Tokyo, 135-0016, Japan
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Abstract: | The necessity of dietary taurine supplementation for preventing green liver symptom and improving growth performance of red sea bream Pagrus major fed nonfishmeal (non-FM) diets was investigated. Yearling red sea bream (initial body weight, 580 g) were fed for 36 weeks on non-FM diets based on soy protein concentrate (SPC) supplemented with taurine at levels of 0%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 1.5%, and 2.0%. Specific growth rate (SGR) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) of fish fed the taurine-unsupplemented SPC diet were markedly inferior. In these fish, incidence of green liver was markedly higher and was accompanied by a decrease of tissue taurine concentration and an increase of hepatopancreatic bile pigment content. The green liver symptom was mainly caused by an increase of hemolysis since the erythrocytes became osmotically fragile due to taurine deficiency. Physiological abnormality and growth performance (SGR and FCR) were markedly improved by taurine supplementation to the SPC diets. These results indicate that dietary taurine supplementation is necessary for yearling red sea bream fed non-FM diet based on SPC to maintain normal physiological condition and growth performance. |
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