“…Similar results have been previously reported, whereby the inclusion of taurine to all plant protein diets improve the growth performance in other carnivorous marine organisms, because they are either unable or poorly able to synthesize enough taurine to fulfill their nutritional needs . Therefore, taurine supplementation is necessary in diets that are either partially or totally substituted with plant protein (Lunger, McLean, Gaylord, Kuhn, & Craig, 2007;Goto, Tiba, Sakurada, & Takagi, 2001;Kim et al, 2005;Takagi et al, 2006). Studies in mangrove red snapper (L. argentimaculatus) and spotted rose snapper (L. guttatus) have shown that FM protein can be replaced by up to 24% and 20% with soybean meal protein without taurine supplementation, respectively (Benetti et al, 2002;Silva-Carrillo, Hernández, Hardy, González-Rodríguez, & CastilloVargasmachuca, 2012).…”