Concentrado protéico de soja e óleo de soja em rações experimentais para o camarão marinho Litopenaeus vannamei

Abstract

Currently, there are many studies to replace total or part of fishmeal in the artificial feeds by plant protein sources in order to lower costs and greater predictability of production. The study aimed to evaluate the growth performance of juvenile shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (1.59 ± 0.46 g) reared in the laboratory under controlled conditions for 72 days. They were stored in 50 polyethylene circular tanks of 500 L at the density of 40 shrimp/tank (70 shrimp/m2). Soybean protein concentrate was the main substitute for fish meal and the soybean oil was the main substitute for fish oil. Eight experimental feeds were formulated combining four levels of inclusion of fish meal and two levels of fish oil (120/20, 120/10, 85/20, 85/10, 50/20, 50/10, 0//20 and 0/10). The first number refers to the inclusion of fishmeal (g kg-1) and the second number refers to the inclusion of fish oil (g kg-1). Differences were significant in weekly growth, weight gain, final weight, total feed intake, FCR, yield and PER based on the percentage of inclusion of fishmeal in diets. Survival and ANPU were not significant. Results showed that it is possible to reduce the level of inclusion of fishmeal in the diet of 120 g kg-1 to 85 g.kg-1 and this doesn’t compromise the shrimp growth only if the diet contains at least 10 g.kg -1 of fish oil. If the level of inclusion of fish oil decreases to 10 g kg-1, the minimum inclusion of fish meal, without prejudice, will be subject to 85 g kg-1. There was a reduction in growth rate of L. vannamei when it was removed completely from the fish meal diet. This fact occurred regardless of inclusion level of tested fish oil (20 or 10 g kg-1). Further work is required to evaluate other levels of inclusion, cheap production techniques, alternative ingredients to fish meal etc