Commercial Scale Field Validation of Net Penned Reared Rainbow Trout

水产养殖是世界上增长最快的食品生产部门之一，生产了我们消费的一半以上的鱼类。 养鱼最初是作为增加自然资源的一种手段而开发的，现在为许多地方和区域经济体提供了直接和间接的经济利益。随着对高品质本地养殖鱼类需求的增长，该行业不断努力提高饲料转化率（FCR），同时降低死亡率，控制病原体并优化生产周期。Cole-Munro食品集团（“Cole-Munro”）是一家总部位于安大略的公司，也是加拿大顶级的虹鳟鱼/钢头加工企业，正在寻找提高FCR值的方法。这项研究的重点是评估在典型的养鱼场条件下，食品配方可以在多大程度上改善虹鳟鱼的FCR，提高Cole-Munro的市场地位和销售。

Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food production sectors in the world, producing over half of the fish we consume. Originally developed as a means to enhance natural stocks, fish farming now provides direct and indirect economic benefits to many local and regional economies. As demand grows for high quality, locally farmed fish, the industry is constantly striving to improve feed conversion ratios (FCR), while decreasing mortality rates, controlling pathogens and optimizing production cycle times. Cole-Munro Food Groups ("Cole-Munro") is an Ontario based company and Canada's top rainbow trout/steelhead processing business and is looking at ways to yield better FCR values. This research is focused on evaluating the extent to which food formulations can produce improvements in FCR for rainbow trout in typical fish farm conditions, improving the market position and sales of Cole-Munro.