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Abstract Introduction
Hatchery-bred donkey's ear abalone, Haliotis The decreasing commercial catch, and the high
asinina, Linne broodstock were given diets consist- price that abalone command in both the domestic
ing of natural food, seaweed (SW), Gracilariopsis and export markets, have stimulated great inter-
bailinae, D1; combination of SW and arti®cial diet est in the development of its aquaculture (FAO
(AD), D2; and AD alone, D3. Equal numbers of 1998). A major constraint to development of
1 : 1 female and male abalone were stocked in 24 abalone aquaculture is the declining supply of
units, 60 L tanks with eight replicate tanks per seed from the wild due to overexploitation and
dietary treatment. Reproductive performance, e.g. habitat destruction (Jarayabhand & Paphavasit
number of spawnings, instantaneous fecundity 1996). Although spontaneous spawning of aba-
and egg hatching rates, was monitored over lone is reported to occur year-round
270 days. The mean number of spawnings was (Singhagraiwan & Doi 1992; Singhagraiwan &
not signi®cantly different among treatments. The Doi 1993; Capinpin, Encena & Bayona 1998),
mean instantaneous fecundity and percent hatch- production of good quality larvae is very incon-
ing rates were signi®cantly higher in abalone fed sistent. Thus, there is a need to develop a reliable
D2 or D3 compared to those given D1. Survival of technique for abalone broodstock development
abalone broodstock fed D1 was, however, sig- through dietary manipulation.
ni®cantly higher at 88% than those fed either D2 Nutrition of broodstock has a profound effect
or D3 at 75%. Fatty acid analysis showed that on gonadal maturation and fecundity (Watanabe
the n-3/n-6 fatty acid ratios of abalone hepato- 1988), and plays a major role in reproductive
pancreas re¯ected those of their diets. Mature success in both ®sh and crustaceans (Yu,
abalone ovary had n-3/n-6 fatty acid ratio of Sinnhuber, & Hendricks 1979; Takeuchi, Ishii,
1.3. A higher amount of essential nutrients in & Ogino 1981; Teshima & Kanazawa 1983;
the arti®cial diet such as protein, lipid and the Watanabe, Itoh, Murakami, Tukashima,
highly unsaturated fatty acids, e.g. 20 : 4n-6, Kitajima, & Fujita 1984). There are no published
20 : 5n-3, 22 : 6n-3 in abalone fed D2 or D3, studies on the in¯uence of nutrition on the
may have in¯uenced the increased reproductive reproductive performance of abalone broodstock,
performance. despite their importance in abalone aquaculture.
Thus, this study was undertaken to investigate
the effects of natural and arti®cial diets on
Keywords: broodstock, nutrition, abalone, Haliotis reproduction of the donkey's ear abalone,
asinina Haliotis asinina, Linne.
Table 1 Percentage composition of arti®cial abalone Table 2 Proximate composition (%) of natural and
broodstock diet (g kg±1diet) arti®cial diet for broodstock abalone, Haliotis asinina,
Linne
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Treatment means with different superscripts are signi®cantly different
(P < 0.005).
D1 = Seaweed, Gracilariopsis bailinae (natural diet) (given alone).
D2 = Seaweed (natural diet) + arti®cial diet given alternately.
D3 = arti®cial diet (given alone)
Table 4 Comparison of fatty acid composition methods (AOAC 1995). Fatty acid composition of
(percentage of total lipid) of natural and arti®cial diets for the diets and abalone muscle tissues were deter-
abalone, Haliotis asinina, Linne, with mature ovary of the mined by gas-liquid chromatography (GLC). Total
wild abalone lipids were extracted using the method of Bligh &
Dyer (1959). Methyl esters of constituent fatty acids
Fatty acid Natural diet Arti®cial diet Mature ovary1 were prepared by the saponi®cation-transesteri®ca-
tion method of Metcalfe, Schmitz, & Pelka (1966).
14 : 0 6.6 16.5 12.9
Fatty acid composition of replicate samples was
15 : 0 2.3 1.5 3.8
16 : 0 29.2 20.1 22.9
analysed using a Shimadzu GC 9A (Shimadzu Co.,
16 : 1n-7 1.4 2.3 1.3 Tokyo, Japan) gas chromatograph with a ¯ame
18 : 0 1.5 1.8 2.4 ionization detector (FID) ®tted with 15% diethylene
18 : 1n-7 15.5 22.8 20.5 glycol succinate column on chromosorb support.
18 : 2n-6 10.9 13.4 10.8
The gas chromatograph was operated isothermally
18 : 3n-3 16.8 7.5 5.9
18 : 4n-3 7.0 1.2 1.5 at 190 °C with a 30 mL min±1 ¯ow of nitrogen. Fatty
20 : 4n-6 2.1 2.4 3.1 acids were identi®ed using authentic standards and
20 : 5n-3 1.8 3.9 5.1 published values for fatty acid marine oils (Ackman
20 : 5n-6 0.9 0.8 1.2
& Burgher 1965) and quanti®ed with an electronic
22 : 5n-3 3.2 0.8 2.3
22 : 6n-3 0.7 3.8 5.2
integrator (Shimadzu Chromatopac CR-2AX).
Total n-3 28.5 17.2 20.0 Results are presented as the weight percentage of
Total n-6 14.4 16.5 15.1 total fatty acids.
n-3/n-6 2.0 1.0 1.3
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Mature ovary from wild abalone
Statistical analysis
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Table 5 Fatty acid composition (percentage of total lipid) (HUFA), e.g. 20 : 4n-6, 20 : 5n-3, 22 : 6n-3, were
of hepatopancreas of abalone, Haliotis asinine, Linne, fed present in relatively higher amount in the arti®cial
natural diet alone, combination of natural and arti®cial diets as compared with those found in the natural
diets and arti®cial diet alone diet.
Hepatopancreas
Discussion
Fatty acids D1 D2 D3
The higher reproductive performance in terms of
14 : 0 9.3 12.2 14.0
total number of spawnings, instantaneous fecundity
15 : 0 4.1 7.2 6.3 and hatching rates of abalone Haliotis asinina fed the
16 : 0 21.2 22.1 23.2 combination of natural and arti®cial diets or the
16 : 1n-7 5.8 1.9 2.2 arti®cial diet alone would suggest that the nutri-
18 : 0 5.7 6.4 9.2
tional quality of the broodstock diet in¯uences
18 : 1n-7 17.9 19.2 18.6
18 : 2n-6 9.4 10.5 8.9
reproduction. Although it is possible to mature
18 : 3n-3 13.5 8.3 5.2 and spawn abalone with natural diet, the provision
18 : 4n-3 5.3 0.9 1.2 of an effective arti®cial diet fed alone or in
20 : 4n-6 2.1 3.2 2.4 combination with the natural diet can achieve
20 : 5n-3 1.8 2.8 3.7
better reproductive performance of the abalone
20 : 5n-6 0.8 0.6 0.7
22 : 5n-3 2.8 1.2 0.9
broodstock. This may result in the enhancement
22 : 6n-3 0.7 2.5 3.1 of production of quality seeds for abalone hatch-
Total n-3 24.1 15.7 14.1 eries. Dietary nutrients, especially in terms of
Total n-6 12.3 14.3 12.0 proteins, lipids, and fatty acids, e.g. 20 : 4n-6;
n-3/n-6 2.0 1.1 1.2
20 : 5n-3, 22 : 6n-3, which are essential in repro-
duction and that are insuf®cient in the natural diet,
D1 = Seaweed, Gracilariopsis bailinae (natural diet) (given may have been compensated by feeding the arti®cial
alone).
diet as a supplement or as total food for the abalone.
D2 = Seaweed (natural diet) + arti®cial diet given alter-
Proteins that are associated with essential fatty
nately.
D3 = arti®cial diet (given alone)
acids and are usually mobilized to the gonads are
considered important components for reproductive
functions (Harrison 1991). Highly unsaturated fatty
acids (HUFAs) are important nutrients for repro-
Table 3. Mean number of spawnings ranged from ductive functions of ®sh and crustaceans
8.0 6 0.6 to 9.5 6 1.2 and were not different (Millamena, Primavera, Pudadera & Caballero
among treatments (P > 0.05). Spawning occurred 1986; Millamena 1989; Millamena & Quinitio
once or twice every 4 weeks. The time interval 2000). Watanabe, Takeuchi, Ogino & Kawabata
between spawnings varied from 15 to 35 days. The (1977) have also demonstrated that essential fatty
mean instantaneous fecundity (5478 6 45.8, D2; acids play as important a role in reproductive
5050 6 74.1, D3) and percent hatching rates physiology in ®sh as in higher animals. The results
(46.22 6 7.3, D2; 45.65 6 11.2,D3) were higher obtained in red sea bream fed essential fatty acid-
(P < 0.05) in abalone fed D2 or D3 compared to de®cient diets for 6 months before spawning indi-
those fed D1 (mean instantaneous fecund- cated that the total egg production and hatchability
ity = 4077 6 67.8; percent hatching were signi®cantly in¯uenced by the level of these
rate = 39.49 6 8.2). Survival of abalone brood- essential fatty acids in the diet (Watanabe et al.
stock fed D1 was however, signi®cantly higher 1984).
(88%) than those fed either D2 or D3 (75%). The n-3/n-6 fatty acid ratios of the hepatopan-
Table 4 shows the fatty acid pro®les of the creas re¯ected those of their diets at 2.0 (D1), 1.1
natural and arti®cial diets. The natural diet had (D2) and 1.2 (D3) (Table 5). Cahu, Fauvel, &
higher n-3/n-6 ratio (2.0) compared to arti®cial diet Aquacop (1986) and Millamena (1989) reported a
(1.0). Mature abalone ovary from the wild abalone correlation between dietary fatty acid composition,
had n-3/n-6 ratio of 1.3, whereas those of the tissue fatty acid pattern and quality of eggs in
hepatopancreas were more of a re¯ection of their shrimp, Penaeus monodon. Dietary HUFAs and n-3/
diets. (Table 5). Highly unsaturated fatty acids n-6 ratio that simulate that of mature ovaries have
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