Growth, Yields and Economic benefit of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) fed diets formulated from local ingredients in cages

These data are from a fish feeds project in Kenya that attempted to decrease small-scale fish farmers' reliance on fish meal. This project showed that the use of on-farm Agricultural byproducts can be used to formulate low cost fish diet for nile tilapia. These data resulted in a technology to demonstrate that small-scale fish farmers can replace up to about 80% fish meal with local ingredients in tilapia diet without compromising growth performance. Farmers benefit more by lowering feed cost a major component in aquaculture production systems These data and the related publication were a part of a larger project: aquafishcrsp.oregonstate.edu The authors would like to thank Dr. Isaac Osuga of Kenyatta University who assisted with Proximate analyses and Amino acid profiles at the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE). This work would not have been possible without the support of Director of AquaFish Innovation Lab. We therefore acknowledge the financial support granted by Aquafish Innovation Lab, formerly Aquafish Collaborative Research Support Program (ACRSP), partially funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under Grant No. LAG-G-00-96-90015-00. We appreciate efforts by Mwea Aquafish Farm technical team and undergraduate students who maintained fish and collected data.