“…Under intensive culture condition, farmed large yellow croaker is susceptible to lose its natural yellow colour. Several studies have shown that the skin colour of large yellow croaker was improved by dietary carotenoids and shrimp meal supplementations (Yi, Xu et al., ; Yi, Zhang, Xu, Li, Zhang & Mai ; Yi, Li, Xu, Zhang, et al., ; Yi, Li, Xu, Zhou, et al., ; Yi et al., ). Previous studies showed that increasing dietary vitamin E can improve the astaxanthin deposition in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L (Bjerkeng, Hamre, Hatlen, & Wathne, ) or the canthaxanthin deposition in rainbow trout (Pozo, Lavety, & Love, ).…”