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Habitat Impact on the Proximate Composition of some Food Fishes


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1 PG and Research Department of Zoology, Kunthavai Naacchiyaar Government Arts College for Women, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India
 

Fish is consumed by almost all population on earth. The moisture, carbohydrate, protein and lipid contents were evaluated to know the impact of habitat and its significance. The fishes studied were Sardinella longiceps, Mugil cephalus and Puntius vittatus, belonged to marine, estuarine and fresh water habitat respectively. The maximum level of moisture (82.31 0.91%) were noted in P. vittatus and minimum level (68.13 1.02%) was noted in S. longiceps. S. longiceps documented maximum level (26.17 1.01%) of protein when compared with Mugil cephalus (21.6 %) which exhibits low level of protein. The highest level of carbohydrates (18.21 0.91%) was observed in P. vittatus and slightly lower level (6.45 0.72%) in S. longiceps. In addition, the high amount of lipid (19.86 0.01%) was observed in S. longiceps and low level (0.8 0.01%) of lipid was recorded in M. cephalus. The lowest moisture content and carbohydrates with highest protein content in the flesh of Sardinella longiceps placed this fish on the top of this list which implies marine habitat plays a significant role in the quality of the product.

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Sardinella longiceps, Puntisvittatus, Mugil cephalus, Moisture, Marine, Estuarine and Fresh Water.
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Joycy Jay Manoharam
PG and Research Department of Zoology, Kunthavai Naacchiyaar Government Arts College for Women, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India
S. Subbulakshmi
PG and Research Department of Zoology, Kunthavai Naacchiyaar Government Arts College for Women, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract


Fish is consumed by almost all population on earth. The moisture, carbohydrate, protein and lipid contents were evaluated to know the impact of habitat and its significance. The fishes studied were Sardinella longiceps, Mugil cephalus and Puntius vittatus, belonged to marine, estuarine and fresh water habitat respectively. The maximum level of moisture (82.31 0.91%) were noted in P. vittatus and minimum level (68.13 1.02%) was noted in S. longiceps. S. longiceps documented maximum level (26.17 1.01%) of protein when compared with Mugil cephalus (21.6 %) which exhibits low level of protein. The highest level of carbohydrates (18.21 0.91%) was observed in P. vittatus and slightly lower level (6.45 0.72%) in S. longiceps. In addition, the high amount of lipid (19.86 0.01%) was observed in S. longiceps and low level (0.8 0.01%) of lipid was recorded in M. cephalus. The lowest moisture content and carbohydrates with highest protein content in the flesh of Sardinella longiceps placed this fish on the top of this list which implies marine habitat plays a significant role in the quality of the product.

Keywords


Sardinella longiceps, Puntisvittatus, Mugil cephalus, Moisture, Marine, Estuarine and Fresh Water.

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