FILLET TEXTURE

Diploid and Triploid Females

Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Fish Sampling

The National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, Leetown, WV, USA

Muscle Sample from Large Females

Fertile (Diploid) Trout Female

Fish Husbandry

The Conservation Fund Freshwater Institute, Shepherdstown, WV, USA

Cooked Fillet Sections

Sexually Maturing Fish

Fish Harvest by Mechanical Stunning

Fabrication of Carcass and Fillet

Juvenile Perch

(Perca fluviatilis)

Overwrap of Refrigerated Fillets

Morphological Analysis

Instrumental Texture Analysis

Allo-Kramer Shear Cell

Dissection & Gravimetric Measurement

Aquarium Experiment

Colored Water Mimicking Habitat Environment

Variable-Blade (VB) Attachment

J Food Science 75(7):S365-74

Muscle Cellularity

Hydroxyproline Fractionation