Nutritional Evaluation of Seasonal Changes in Muscle Fatty Acid Composition of Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Karamik Lake, Turkey

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Table 1 Lengths, weights, and condition factors of investigated specimens

				Fork length	Condition
Seasons	n	Age	Weight (g)	(cm)	factor
Winter	8	5.10 ± 0.70	916.67 ± 57.92	37.02 ± 1.68	1.80
Spring	8	5.05 ± 0.79	937.47 ± 77.38	38.15 ± 1.53	1.68
Summer	7	5.30 ± 0.64	984.10 ± 65.10	36.27 ± 1.95	2.06
Autumn	9	5.60 ± 0.92	995.17 ± 40.08	36.57 ± 2.26	2.03

Table 2 The amounts (g/100 g fatty acids) of fatty acids in muscle of the common carp

Fatty acids	Winter n = 8	Spring n = 8	Summer n = 7	Autumn n = 9
C12:0	0.07 ± 0.02	0.06 ± 0.01	0.07 ± 0.01	0.06 ± 0.01
C13:0	0.13 ± 0.03	0.01 ± 0.00	0.03 ± 0.01	0.03 ± 0.00
C14:0	1.49 ± 0.22	0.67 ± 0.18	1.00 ± 0.11	1.08 ± 0.22
C14:1	0.44 ± 0.03	0.47 ± 0.08	0.42 ± 0.04	0.62 ± 0.13
C15:0	1.26 ± 0.24	2.34 ± 0.51	2.72 ± 0.41	1.47 ± 0.19
C15:1	0.49 ± 0.06	0.79 ± 0.06	0.72 ± 0.10	0.49 ± 0.05
C16:0	16.56 ± 0.91	14.87 ± 0.75	16.79 ± 0.89	16.19 ± 0.63
C16:1	6.78 ± 0.88	7.08 ± 0.66	10.78 ± 0.75	10.49 ± 0.63
C17:0	0.88 ± 0.11	0.76 ± 0.09	0.66 ± 0.09	0.90 ± 0.09
C17:1	0.99 ± 0.32	0.97 ± 0.22	1.06 ± 0.28	1.22 ± 0.13
C18:0	6.03 ± 0.64	5.30 ± 0.50	5.11 ± 0.35	5.21 ± 0.37
C18:1 ω9	12.23 ± 0.88	9.49 ± 0.91	17.93 ± 0.90	15.30 ± 0.93
C18:1 ω9	0.20 ± 0.05	0.31 ± 0.02	0.28 ± 0.05	0.37 ± 0.07
C18:2 ω6	4.87 ± 0.78	3.38 ± 0.79	2.85 ± 0.46	3.28 ± 0.37
C20:0	0.17 ± 0.05	0.15 ± 0.01	0.17 ± 0.02	0.15 ± 0.02
C18:3 ω6	0.25 ± 0.05	0.08 ± 0.02	0.10 ± 0.06	0.08 ± 0.04
C18:3 ω3	2.69 ± 0.39	1.27 ± 0.18	1.67 ± 0.53	1.27 ± 0.19
C20:1 ω9	0.72 ± 0.07	0.83 ± 0.18	1.19 ± 0.18	1.23 ± 0.32
C21:0	0.48 ± 0.12	0.17 ± 0.03	0.26 ± 0.03	0.29 ± 0.10
C20:2	0.88 ± 0.17	0.69 ± 0.15	0.64 ± 0.16	1.14 ± 0.22
C20:3 ω3	0.76 ± 0.09	0.82 ± 0.11	0.72 ± 0.03	0.79 ± 0.06
C22:0	0.13 ± 0.02	0.62 ± 0.39	1.41 ± 0.42	0.12 ± 0.03
C20:4 ω6	5.59 ± 035	10.71 ± 0.80	7.87 ± 0.62	11.22 ± 0.87
C22:2	0.60 ± 0.13	0.51 ± 0.02	0.48 ± 0.04	0.38 ± 0.08
C20:5 ω3	8.64 ± 0.87	7.19 ± 0.55	5.08 ± 0.76	4.11 ± 0.64
C23:0	0.74 ± 0.14	2.33 ± 0.35	1.31 ± 0.23	1.99 ± 0.32
C24:0	0.74 ± 0.09	2.05 ± 0.31	1.48 ± 0.36	2.33 ± 0.32
C24:1 ω9	3.44 ± 0.23	4.09 ± 0.35	2.62 ± 0.61	2.64 ± 0.29
C22:6 ω3	13.86 ± 0.66	11.07 ± 0.74	5.42 ± 0.92	8.61 ± 0.95
Total	92.24	89.20	90.94	93.17
Unknown	7.76	10. 80	9.06	6.83
ω6 PUFAs/ω3 PUFAs	0.41	0.69	0.83	0.98
AA/EPA	0.64	1.48	1.54	2.72
EPA + DHA	22.50	18.26	10.50	12.72

Figure 1 The ratios of fatty acid groups in muscle of the common carp.

Figure 2 The ratios of ω3 PUFAs, ω6 PUFAs, and ω9 MUFAs in muscle of the common carp.