Seasonal Variations in Nutritive Components for Wild and Cultured Puffers Fugu rubripes

Abstract

The contents of nutritive components were determined monthly through one year for the muscle of wild and cultured puffers, Fugu rubripes. The wild puffer was caught in the offing of Tsushima and the cultured fish was taken from the Senzaki culture farm in Yamaguchi Prefecture from May, 1981 to May, 1982. Results obtained are as follows.
For both the muscles from the wild and the cultured puffers, the contents of the nutritive components i.e. moisture, protein, lipid, and ash are nearly contents vary inversely in both the wild and the cultured puffers. Lipid and ash are minor components. Lipid is accumulated exclusively in the liver of both the wild and the cultured puffers throughout the year.