Overall, corn meal was well digested by black carp and the suitable inclusion level of corn meal in black carp, M. piceus diet was 200 g/kg. These results provided useful data on practical diets for black carp by suing the locally available corn meal which could be easily adopted by many smallholder fish farmers in Northern upland region of Vietnam. Transfer knowledge about present study, as well as technologies on producing, storing practical diets and feeding for black carp could help local farmers to archive better production and in turn significantly contribute to food security in the region.
