Nutritive Evaluation of Edible Trash Fish: II Use of Trash Protein in Cereal Food Diet

The essential and non essential amino acid has been estimated to determine the quality of protein of ediable fishes from trash fish collected from Karachi fish harbor. The crude protein was analyzed by standard method. The amino acid contents from protein hydrolyze were analyzed by high speed amino acid analyzer model 835. The results were discussed in order to evaluate the protein value of the ediable species present in trash and its utilization as a food of poultry, supplement of cereal food because of nutritional point of view, man cannot survive on a bread diet alone. It was suggested that the variations in values of protein contents of edible fishes of trash may be due to difference in species, size, age, physiological state, time and region of catch.