NUTRITIONAL EVALUATION ON SAINT JOHN RIVER STRAIN SEAWATER PHASE ATLANTIC SALMON

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has a requirement for a highly-controlled 6-month fish feeding trial. As the study data may be used for product regulatory approval processes, the study must be conducted by a non-biased, contract research organization (CRO) that is in compliance with Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) procedures to perform growth performance feeding studies with Atlantic salmon. The work will involve careful and accurate feeding of four experimental test diets formulated by the NRC and the service provider must provide NRC with all environmental data (e.g., water temperatures, dissolved oxygen levels), growth performance data (e.g., mortalities, feed intake, fish weights and lengths, growth rates, FCR) and be responsible for the collection and proper storage of biological samples for subsequent fish health assessments (e.g., muscle tissues, blood, intestine) and fillet sensory analysis (e.g., color, texture, taste).