The Influence of Protein and Energy Density in Commercial Diets on Growth, Body Composition, and Nutrient Retention of Sunshine Bass, Morone chrysops♀×Morone saxatilis♂, Reared at Extreme Temperature

Three growth trials were conducted with juvenile sunshine bass reared at temperatures typical of winter or summer pond culture in the Southeastern USA. The trials were designed to determine if there was an advantage to feeding a commercial high‐protein/high‐fat diet during winter and a low‐protein/high‐fat diet during summer. In the first trial, two commercially extruded, practical diets (40% protein/10% lipid vs. 48/18) were fed to apparent...