Project Number: 3622-21000-028-12
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Jul 01, 2008
End Date: Mar 31, 2010

Objective:
1) The compilation of nutritional data from a sub-set of reliable published studies, 2) the development of an "Integrated Nutritional Model for Salmonids," and 3) a meta-analysis relating various independent and dependent factors from experimental observations and the identification of discrepancies between nutritional model prediction and experimental results.

Approach:
Experimental observations from reliable studies (experimentally sound and highly credible) will be organized and processed using nutritional models and these "structured" experimental observations and model simulations will be statistically compared (within and across studies) through a meta-analysis approach. Meta-analysis is a statistical approach to determine the reliability of nutritional guidelines and the estimate of the nutritive value of ingredients.