Hello everybody,
I am interested in lab methods to anaylse the bone to meat ratio in whole fish.
Water, fat, protein etc. is clear.
But is there a method to analyse the bone to meat ration without manually dissecting? How do scales bias the results?
Cheers
Dear
The use of shell-to-meat and bone-to-meat ratios for estimating dietary yields has been criticized (see Casteel 1978; Grayson 1984; Klein and Cruz-Uribe 1984; Waselkov 1987:158; Erlandson
Dear Mr. Kshash,
thank you very much for your answer. However, I am not aiming at dietary yield, but at asymptotic growth patterns and shifts during different life stages and the functional metabolic processes related.
See this link of article may be helpful
Article Numbers of Individuals in faunal analysis: The decay of fish...
Regards
Well, it seems the easiest way to anaylse the bone to meat ratio is to manually seperate most of the soft tissue. Afterwards, the remaining tissue is removed either by boiling, beetles ( Silphidae spp.) or by digestion via Trypsin.
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