Effects of Salinity on Muscle Nutrition, Fatty Acid Composition, and Substance Anabolic Metabolism of Blue Tilapia Oreochromis aureus

Table 1

The effect of different salinity on the growth performance of Oreochromis aurea.

Parameters	Groups
	0	3	5	7	9	11
Initial weight (g)	15.65 ± 4.21	15.57 ± 3.4	15.43 ± 3.29	15.44 ± 4.98	15.53 ± 4.3	15.52 ± 3.23
Final weight (g)	56.78 ± 5.68^ab	51.26 ± 2.39^a	55.33 ± 4.91^ab	56.11 ± 4.46^ab	61.98 ± 2.89^b	58.67 ± 3.56^ab
WGR (g)	262.81 ± 36.31^ab	229.15 ± 15.36^a	258.43 ± 31.8^ab	263.42 ± 28.91^ab	299.03 ± 18.65^b	277.89 ± 22.95^ab
SGR (%/day)	2.13 ± 0.16^ab	1.98 ± 0.07^a	2.12 ± 0.15^ab	2.14 ± 0.13^ab	2.3 ± 0.07^b	2.21 ± 0.1^ab
FCR (%)	1.02 ± 0.13^ab	1.13 ± 0.07^a	1.03 ± 0.13^ab	0.99 ± 0.11^ab	0.86 ± 0.06^b	0.93 ± 0.09^ab
CF (g/cm^3)	3.22 ± 0.18^ab	3.27 ± 0.18^ab	3.03 ± 0.16^a	3.15 ± 0.07^a	3.48 ± 0.10^b	3.49 ± 0.14^b
NW (%)	88.52 ± 0.88^ab	88.95 ± 0.71^b	86.39 ± 0.49^c	87.02 ± 1.15^ac	86.84 ± 0.34^ac	87.79 ± 0.89^abc

Note. Values are mean ± SD; WGR: weight gain rate; SGR: specific growth rate; FCR: feed conversion ratio. CF: condition factor; EW: net weight; 0 : 0 ppt salinity; 3 : 3 ppt salinity; 5 : 5 ppt salinity; 7 : 7 ppt salinity; 9 : 9 ppt salinity; 11 : 11 ppt salinity; different superscript letters in the same row indicate significant differences ().