Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

Table 5 Effect of the dietary inclusion of BSF meal on somatic indexes, carcass yield and coefficient of fatness of rainbow trout (n = 28)

From: Dietary inclusion of a partially defatted black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larva meal in low fishmeal-based diets for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

	BSF0	BSF3	BSF6	BSF9	BSF12	BSF15	SEM	P-value
HSI	1.20^b	1.22^b	1.37^ab	1.37^ab	1.39^ab	1.47^a	0.019	0.000
VSI	11.2^ab	11.0^b	11.6^ab	12.1^ab	12.3^ab	12.6^a	0.143	0.008
CY	87.9	87.7	87.7	87.0	86.8	89.1	0.341	0.448
CF	3.65	3.64	3.64	3.82	3.84	3.24	0.093	0.622

Abbreviations: BSF Hermetia illucens, SEM standard error of the mean, HSI hepatosomatic index, VSI viscerosomatic index, CY carcass yield, CF coefficient of fatness. Different superscripts within a row indicate significant differences (P < 0.05)

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ISSN: 2049-1891

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