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Weak compensatory growth makes short-term starvation an unsuitable technique to mitigate body deformities of Tinca tinca juveniles in intensive culture

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Juvenile tench, Tinca tinca (L.) (initial mean weight 0.67 g) were continuously fed at high (5.0% of fish biomass) or low (2.5% of fish biomass) daily doses of a commercial formulated diet, or starved for 6 days, then fed these doses. The experiment lasted 40 days. Visible skeletal deformities occurred in fish fed the high doses, and the 6-day food deprivation mitigated the percentage of deformed fish from 37.3 to 12.1%. Deformities were associated with higher condition coefficient value. Faster growing individuals were more susceptible to body malformations within the feeding groups. No compensatory growth in body weight was observed in juveniles fed high or low doses. Lack of compensation was supported by lower carbon/nitrogen ratio in starved-re-alimented fish. Morphometric indices (condition coefficient and height/length ratio) suggested only partial compensation observed mostly during the first few days after the end of starvation. The possible mechanisms underlying this weak compensatory response in T. tinca juveniles may be associated with their slow growth rate and low oxygen consumption. Short starvation mitigates body deformities in intensively fed tench juveniles, however, this technique is not recommended in aquaculture due to their weak compensatory growth response.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to the staff of the Pond Fishery Department, Inland Fisheries Institute, for their extensive help, and especially to Justyna Sikorska, Jacek Wolnicki and Rafał Kamiński for their permission to use their unpublished data for comparisons of cyprinid growth. We would like to thank constructive comments of three anonymous referees. Matthew Owen provided valuable comments and English language corrections. This work was conducted within the Inland Fisheries Institute Statute Project S-001. Funding for CHNS analyses was provided by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Project No 2 PO6 023 30.

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    Leszek Myszkowski, Ewa Kamler & Sławomir Kwiatkowski

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Myszkowski, L., Kamler, E. & Kwiatkowski, S. Weak compensatory growth makes short-term starvation an unsuitable technique to mitigate body deformities of Tinca tinca juveniles in intensive culture. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries 20, 381–388 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-009-9134-1

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