본 연구에서는 국내에서 가장 많이 양식되고 있는 넙치에 있어서 단백질 사료원들의 단백질과 인소화율을 측정을 통해 저오염 사료 개발을 위한 사료원을 선택하는데 그 목적이 있다. 본 실험에 사용된 9가지 동 식물성 단백질원들은 $BAIFA-M^{TM}$(어분대체품), 어분(White fish meal, WFM), 넙치근육분(Flounder muscle powder, FMP), 오징어간분(Squid liver powder, SLP), 수지박(Leather meal, LM), 대두박(Soybean meal, SM), 콘글루텐밀(Corn gluten meal, CGM), 가금부산물(Poultry by-product PBP), 그리고 난단백질(Egg albumin) 이였다. 실험결과, 각 사료원의 단백질 소화율은 FMP, 94%; SLP, 92%; WFM, 86%; SM, 82%; CGM, 75%; LM, 72%; PBP, 72%; $BAIFA-M^{TM}$, 71%; EA, 30%로 나타났다. 각 사료원의 인 소화율은 FMP, 77%; SLP, 72%; $BAIFA-M^{TM}$, 65%; LM, 55%; WFM, 54%; PBP, 50%; CGM, 20%; EA, 20%; SM, 17%로 나타났다.
A 6-week feeding trial was conducted to determine apparent protein and phosphorus digestibilities in order to evaluate nine different dietary protein sources in growing olive flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus. Nine diets containing fish meal analog ($BAIFA-M^{TM}$), white fish meal (WFM), flounder muscle powder (FMP), squid liver powder (SLP), leather meal (LM), soybean meal (SM), corn gluten meal (CGM), poultry by-product (PBP) or egg albumin(EA) were prepared by mixing a basal diet (BD) with one of nine test ingredients at the ratio of 7 to 3. Apparent protein digestibilities of FMP, SLP, WFM, SM, CGM, LM, PBP, $BAIFA-M^{TM}$, and EA were 94%, 92%, 86%, 82%, 75%, 72%, 72%, 71%, and 30%, respectively. Apparent phosphorus digestibilities of FMP, SLP, $BAIFA-M^{TM}$, LM, WFM, PBP, CGM, EA and SM were 77%, 72%, 65%, 55%, 54%, 50%, 20%, 20%, and 17%, respectively. Weight gain of fish fed FMP ($323^a$) was significantly higher than those of fish fed the other diets, and those of fish fed basal diet ($302^b$), SLP ($305^b$) and WFM ($308^b$) diet were significantly higher than those of fish fed SM ($274^c$), $BAIFA-M^{TM};(268^{cd}),;PBP;(261^{de}),;LM;(251^e),;CGM;(254^e)$ and EA ($181^f$). Based on the results of apparent protein digestibilities, apparent phosphorus digestibilities and weight gain, SLP, SM and $BAIFA-M^{TM}$ could be one of good protein source to replace fish meal in flounder diets.
