Sunfish Funded Project 6 - Low Cost Diet


(funded project 6)

Description

The sixth sunfish funded project.  Chaired by Robert Hayward.

Objectives:

1.  Develop a least-cost diet for bluegill Lepomis macrochirus by:

(a) Evaluating amino acid availability of dietary ingredients for bluegills,

(b) Evaluating amino acid composition of bluegills,

(c) Evaluating limiting amino acid requirements of bluegills, and

(d) Making a least-cost diet formulation model available to the industry within a two-year period.

Principal Investigator(s)/Institution Objectives

Funding

Robert S. Hayward (University of Missouri-Columbia)

1 a-d

$80,000

 

Total

$80,000


 

Project Outline (197 KB pdf file)

Report - None to date.





Project Number: 6
Duration: 9/1/2007 - 8/31/2009
Funding Level: $80,000
Grant Number: 2006-385000-16900