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	Every day(6 on^-1 day off)	Every other day (1 on^-1 day off)	Every two days(2 on^-1 day off)	p- value
InitialWt. (kg)	1.77 ± .01^a	1.77 ± .02^a	1.78 ± .01^a	0.980
Final Wt. (kg)	2.00 ± .03^a	1.93 ± .02^a	1.92 ± .02^a	0.060
Initial L¹ (cm)	54.51 ± .07^a	54.69 ± .35^a	54.79 ± .27^a	0.748
Final L (cm)	56.27±.21^a	56.12 ± .38^a	55.87 ± .08^a	0.562
Initial CI²	1.10 ± .01^a	1.08 ± .01^a	1.08 ± .02^a	0.719
Final CI	1.12 ± .01^a	1.09 ± .01^a	1.10 ± .01^a	0.180
TWG (kg)³	4.7 ± .41^a	3.24 ± .35^b	2.95 ± .17^b	0.020*
AGR (g fish^-1day^-1)⁴	6.54 ± .57^a	4.49 ± .49 ^b	4.10 ± .24^b	0.019*
SGR (% day^-1)⁵	0.35 ± .03^a	0.24 ± .01^b	0.22 ± .03^b	0.022*
Feed eaten (kg)	6.09 ± .25^a	5.15 ± .29^a	5.07 ± .31^a	0.079
FCR⁶	1.31 ± .06^a	1.61 ± .09^b	1.72 ± .04^b	0.011*
FCE (%)⁷	76.97 ± 3.89^a	62.57 ± 3.35^b	58.24 ± 1.24^b	0.011*
PER⁸	1.71 ± .09^a	1.39 ± .07^b	1.29 ± .03^b	0.011*

¹Total length (L).
²Fulton’s condition index (CI) = 10⁵W/L³ where W is the weight and L is the total length of the fish.
³Total weight gain (kg) = (final weight -initial weight) .
⁴Absolute growth rate (g fish^-1day^-1) = (w2-w1 / t2-t1) increment of weight W2-W1 over a known time.(t) interval.
⁵Specific growth rate (% day^-1) = 100 x (loge final wt.-loge initial wt.)/days.
⁶Feed conversion ratio = dry feed intake (g)/wet weight gain (g).
⁷Feed conversion efficiency (%) = wet weight gain (g) x 100/dry feed intake (g).
⁸Protein efficiency ratio = wet weight gain/protein intake.

Table 3: Influence of feeding frequencies: every day six days week-1 (6 days on - 1 day off), every other day (1 day on - 1 day off) and every two days (2 days on - 1 day off) at noon (12-1 pm) on growth parameters, feed efficiency and condition of two-year-old mulloway (Argyrosomusjaponicus) reared in tanks for 30 days. Data are means (± standard error) of three replicatetanks (20 fish each) for each frequency. Means with different superscripts (a,b) within rows are significantly different (P < 0.05; Tukey test). P is probability value and *is significant.