“…However, various studies suggested that compensatory growth in fish could be a result of low basal metabolism (Fu, Xie, & Cao, 2005), increased feed intake (hyperphagia) (Xie et al, 2001), or improved feed utilization indices such as FCR and FER (Foss et al, 2009;Adakli & Tasbozan, 2015) following period of starvation or intermitted feeding. Improved feed utilization parameters has been observed in many fish including hybrid tilapia (O. niloticus x O. aureus) (Abdel-Hakim et al, 2009), Nile tilapia (Passinato et al, 2015), and even in shellfish such as Fenneropenaeus chinesis (Zhang, Zhang, Li, & Gao, 2010) exposed to feed deprivation and refeeding regimes. Improvement in these parameters is attributed by an increase in digestive capacity of fish during refeeding period as reported by (Bolasina, Perez, and Yamashita, 2006).…”