Dietary lysine requirement to enhance muscle development and fillet yield of finishing Nile tilapia

The dietary lysine requirement has not been established for finishing Nile tilapia despite being considered the first limiting essential amino acid in many cereal grain ingredients. A feeding trial was designed to determine the dietary lysine requirement using 600 fish (274.9 ± 3.3 g) distributed into 15, 1.2 m3 net cages in a completely randomized design with five treatments and three replicates. Five extruded isoproteic (251.2 g of crude...