Proximate composition and mineral profile of two deep sea fishes (Parascolopsis tanyactis and Beryx splendens) cought from Indian west-coast waters

Abstract

Today most of the population especially children and elderly persons are suffering from nutritional deficiency disorders due to non-availability or scarcity of nutritionally balanced diet. The nutrient research world is mainly focusing this problem to find out a solution especially for malnutrition. Deep sea is a potential source of different fish varieties and the effective exploitation and utilization of the same will be helpful to boost up the status of nutrient rich diet for human consumption. As an attempt to diminish the above difficulty a comparative study has been made on the nutritional status of two abundantly available deep sea fishes (Parascolopsis tanyactis and Beryx splendens) with Sardinella longiceps; commonly available fish species of Indian coasts. Those species were inspected for their proximate composition and mineral status to find whether they could be a curative source for deficiency diseases in suffering population. The result of the study reveals that the selected fish species are rich in minerals which play vital roles in different physiological activities and are in a comparable level to that of common nutrient rich food fish sardine. So the effective utilization of those fishes may be helpful to trim down the human health problems.