Protection Agency, under the direction of Mr. Allen Beck, and food scientists 
at the University of Rhode Island. This cooperative effort has promoted an 
investigation that neither group could have accomplished easily on an 
independent basis. 
This work was supported by the Environmental Protection Agency under 
Grant #R-803818 and the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station. This 
manuscript is Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station Contribution 
Number 1766. 
Thanks is given to Allen Beck, Grace MacPhee, Bruce Lancaster and Drs. 
Robert Barkman and Hugh Poston for their contributions. Additionally, we 
thank the personnel at the Tunison Laboratory of Fish Nutrition for 
formulating and pelleting the artificial diets, and providing advice and guidance 
to the total project. Thanks is also given to Cindy Seidel for typing of the 
manuscript. 
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