Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 31 - Feeding lupins to fish: a review of the nutritional and biological value of lupins in aquaculture feeds

Authors

Brett Glencross, Department of Fisheries, Western Australia

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Description

Lupins are the harvested seed of species from the Lupinus genus, a group within the leguminous bean and pea family Fabaceae. Legumes are particularly valuable agricultural crops because of their capacity to provide a grain crop and also fix and return nitrogen to soils and improve the soil value for further cropping. The oilseeds, soybeans and peanuts are also leguminous plants, though traditionally they have been cropped for their oil value, whereas lupins, are cropped for both their protein and nitrogen fixing value (Gladstones, 1998; Perry et al., 1998).

The three key commercial species of lupins are L. angustifolius (Narrow-leafed Sweet Lupin), L. albus (White cr Albus Lupin) and L. luteus (Yellow Lupin). L. angustifolius dominates world lupin production, with the bulk of the grain (77% of world production), being produced in the mediterranean climate of south-western Australia (Perry et al., 1998). The primary cultivars of L. angustifolius grown are the Gungurru and Merrit varieties. Recent develapment has seen the release of the Myaltie, Belara and Tallerack varieties, which were developed to suit different environmental and production criteria (GPWA, 2000). Both L. albus and L. luteus are also grown in this region and in several other regions in Australia, but at much lower quantities (Perry et al., 1998; Petterson et al., 1998).

Lupin grain has been used as a key feed ingredient in diet formulations for terrestrial species; indeed this is the primary use of the grain (Gdala et al., 1996; Edwards and van Barneveld, 1998; Petterson, 2000). The capacity to use lupins as either a whole-feed or feed ingredient have been well studied in most terrestrial domestic animal species, as have the nutritional requirements and the physiological and biochemical processes associated with nutrition in these species (reviewed in: Edwards and van Barneveld, 1998; van Barneveld, 1999 and Petterson, 2000).

ISSN

1447 - 2058

Publication Date

2001

Series Number

31

Publisher

Department of Fisheries, Western Australia

City

Perth

Number of Pages

127

Keywords

Lupins, Fish, Fish nutrition, Aquaculture feeds, Fish diets

Disciplines

Agricultural Science | Agronomy and Crop Sciences | Aquaculture and Fisheries | Biology | Marine Biology | Nutrition | Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology

Comments

This document will be updated as a Fisheries Research Report. The present version is part of the Final Contract Report Series - Grains Research Council (GRC) of WA Project, "Assessment of the nutritional variability of W.A. lupins as an aquaculture feed ingredient."

Recommended Citation

Glencross, B. 2001. Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 31 - Feeding lupins to fish: a review of the nutritional and biological value of lupins in aquaculture feeds. 31. Department of Fisheries, Western Australia. Perth. , 127 pp.
https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/fr_fop/90