Effect of Body Weight on the Nutritional Content of Rice Field Eel, Monopterus albus

Table 1

Body characteristics of the three sizes of Monopterus albus.

Index	Group
	A	B	C
Muscle/body weight ratio (%)	28.44 ± 0.12^a	57.41 ± 0.10^b	49.63 ± 0.12^b
Skin/body weight ratio (%)	15.04 ± 0.02^a	24.41 ± 0.06^b	21.22 ± 0.02^b
Fertility (%)	1.75 ± 0.02^a	3.13 ± 0.02^b	2.86 ± 0.03^b
Meat yield (%)	43.11 ± 0.02^a	69.91 ± 0.04^b	62.20 ± 0.01^b

Note: Lowercase letters with upper right index for different groups indicate significant difference ().