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High Dietary Linoleic Acid Affects the Fatty Acid Compositions of Individual Phospholipids from Tissues of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar): Association with Stress Susceptibility and Cardiac Lesion

Natural Environment Research Council, Unit of Aquatic Biochemistry, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland ^* Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen AB9 8DB, Scotland

For 16 wk Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) post-smolts were fed practical-type diets that contained either fish oil (FO) or sunflower oil (SO) as the lipid component. Both diets contained adequate (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). All the phospholipids of heart and liver from SO-fed fish had increased levels of 18:2(n-6), 20:2(n-6) and 20:3(n-6); phosphatidyl choline (PC) and phosphatidyl ethanolamine (PE) also had increased 20:4(n-6). There was a general decrease in 20:5(n-3) in the phospholipids, reflected in an increase in the 20:4(n-6)/20:5(n-3) ratio, especially in PC and PE. The fatty acid compositions of phospholipids from brain and retina were much less affected by dietary linoleate than those of heart and liver. Fish fed SO developed severe heart lesions that caused thinning of the ventricular wall and muscle necrosis. The fish fed SO also were susceptible to a transportation-induced shock syndrome that caused 30% mortality. These results establish that a diet with a low (n-3)/(n-6) ratio can cause changes in fatty acid metabolism that are deleterious to the health of salmonid fish, especially when subjected to stress.

KEY WORDS: • linoleic acid • fish • stress • heart • phospholipids

Manuscript received 3 July 1990. Revision accepted 13 December 1990.

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