Table 4.

Main fatty acids (% of total FA) of broodstock diets (C and MA)

	Broodstock diet
Saturated fatty acids (SFA)	CB	MAB
14:0	6.30 ± 0.06	0.47 ± 0.04
16:0	18.81 ± 0.12	17.54 ± 0.37
18:0	3.14 ± 0.38	2.39 ± 0.02
Total saturated FA (SFA)	29.27 ± 0.81	21.46 ± 0.11
Monounsatured fatty acids (MUFA)
16:1	9.21 ± 2.65	0.44 ± 0.10
18:1	14.49 ± 0.47	24.08 ± 0.30
20:1	2.14 ± 0.21	0.63 ± 0.07
22:1	1.62 ± 0.05	0.37 ± 0.00
Total monosatured FA	27.59 ± 3.39	25.73 ± 0.04
Polyunsatured fatty acid (PUFA)
16:2 n-4	1.34 ± 0.13	0.01 ± 0.01
16:3 n-4	1.37 ± 0.03	0.08 ± 0.00
16:4 n-1	2.40 ± 0.33	0.04 ± 0.00
PUFA n-6
18:2 n-6	5.74 ± 0.46	20.27 ± 0.96
20:4 n-6	0.78 ± 0.20	0.18 ± 0.16
22:5 n-6	0.14 ± 0.05	4.89 ± 0.15
Total PUFA n-6	9.80 ± 4.20	25.97 ± 0.75
PUFA n-3
18:3 n-3	0.95 ± 0.06	8.76 ± 0.19
18:4 n-3	1.74 ± 0.09	0.11 ± 0.01
20:5 n-3	15.50 ± 0.02	0.37 ± 0.15
22:5 n-3	1.72 ± 0.24	0.08 ± 0.01
22:6 n-3	5.63 ± 1.02	15.50 ± 0.46
Total PUFA n-3	24.29 ± 0.74	16.27 ± 0.60
Ratio
SFA/PUFA	0.73 ± 0.01	0.42 ± 0.01
n3 / n6	3.67 ± 0.31	0.97 ± 0.02
Index Insat	198.83 ± 0.39	216.74 ± 4.61
EPA/DHA	2.80 ± 0.50	0.02 ± 0.01
ARA/EPA	0.05 ± 0.01	0.42 ± 0.26
ARA/DHA	0.14 ± 0.01	0.01 ± 0.01