ACAAF funds study into nutritional value of fish plant secondary processing products

The ACAAF - Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Foods - programme, administered through the Yukon Agriculture Association (YAA) has funded a project to analyse the nutritional value of Arctic Charr secondary processing products for livestock feed - eg. hogs, poultry, and dogs.

Analysis was performed by CANTEST, Vancouver, and it is hoped the results will help livestock and kennel owners feed these products efficiently to their animals. Samples for analysis were provided by Icy Waters Ltd.

Unfortunately "Blogspots, Blogger" cannot handle tables of data very well (as anyone trying to follow the CHT results knows!). So to interpret below, the first figure after the category name (eg Protein) is the value in the guts/offal, the second is the value in the Rejected Whole Fish, and the third is the value of the Heads/Racks/Trim

Guts/Offal Rejected Whole Fish Heads/Racks/Trim

% Protein 8.7 17.1 21.1

% Fat 45.41 7.85 4.93

% Moisture 45.9 73.1 72.2

% Ash 0.9 1.9 1.6

% Carbohydrate <0.1 <0.1 0.2

% Omega-3 Fatty Acids 10.42 1.96 1.5

ENERGY

Calories/100g 440 139 129

kJ/100g 1840 583 542

VITAMINS

A (Retinol) IU/100g 20074 950.6 <33.3

E IU/100g 4.5 <1 <1

C mg/100g <0.42 2 2