Growth Performance, Proximate Muscle Composition and Dress-Out Percentage of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), Blue Tilapia (Oreochromis aureus) and ...

191397 O. niloticus and O. aureus and their interspecific hybrid (O. aureus x O. niloticus), frys were produced in early September 2008 from a mass spawning of brooders in earthen spawning ponds. Frys for each genotype were nursed and overwintered in deep nursery ponds. Thereafter; six earthen growout ponds were used for communal stocking of each genotype (two replicates genotype-1). The growth performance of purebred O. niloticus, O. aureus and their interspecific hybrid ...