Nutritional and Growth Effect of Insect Meal Inclusion on Seabass (Dicentrarchuss labrax) Feeds

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The suggestions are stated in the MS text

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Author Response

resupplies are included in your comment in the tex . I attach the file 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper entitled: “Nutritional and growth effects of insect meal inclusion on seabass (Dicentrarchuss labrax) feeds”, describes the results of the inclusion of several insect meals in sea bass diets, replacing fishmeal, on growth performance and proximate composition of sea bass.

The paper is well written, concise, and points out several aspects related to the current problems for the use of insect meals in fish diets. For this reason, the results of this manuscript are of interest, especially for marine aquaculture.

Please consider revision of the manuscript according to the some minor corrections and following comments:

Line 61: delete European.

Table 1: correct the letters indicative of significance in FCE and PER columns. Regarding K, What units did each parameter have?

Table 2: and table 3 and table 4, It would not hurt to add the description of the diets as in Table 1?

Line 146: Where does 47.23% come from?

Table 6: add acronyms in table title?

Line 269: it would be better to add the units

Author Response

reptiles are included in the attach file

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Reviewer 3 Report

Title and abstract are representative, clear and concise. Title describes the study very well. Abstract cover concisely the main points of the study. Introduction is well written, clear and concise. Purpose of the study is clearly defined. Experiment is well designed and executed with adequate statistical analyses. The SI international system of measurement units is used properly. Illustration quality is good. The design of the study is appropriate. Results are clear and informative and they are clearly presented. Results are credible. Discussion is relevant and complete. Conclusions are based on results and them clearly summaries the main results and contributions of the study. Manuscript contains sufficient and appropriate references. References are cited according to guidelines. Reference list is corresponding to references in text and vice versa.

line 30 - Tenebrio molitor; Hermetia illucens - italic

Author Response

the replies are include in the attached file

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors.

Please follow the previous suggestions thoroughly.

Best regards

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Author Response

the changes have been revised as requested. Also the authors have been corrected the foot note of table:

C: Control; YW50: Yellow mealworm 50% replacement; BSF30: Black Soldier Fly 30% replacement; BSF50: Black Soldier Fly 50% replacement; BSF50m:  Enriched Black Soldier Fly 50%m replacement

C: Control; YW50: Yellow mealworm 50% replacement; BSF30: Black Soldier Fly 30% replacement; BSF50: Black Soldier Fly 50% replacement; BSF50m:  Enriched Black Soldier Fly 50% replacement

The authors appreciate your help in improving the article

 

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