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I am betting it has to do with all animals and worse with cold blooded animals with high feed conversion. On the farm here if the barn is not warm in the -10c days the pigs feed conversion was very poor. They used a good bunch of the energy of the feed just to stay warm.

Fish feed conversion is 1-1 far better then pigs or cattle. This being said as the water cools down the energy the fish need to survive is much much less. Fish are cold blooded and do not need to stay as warm. When feed pellets high in protein the pellets will take much much longer to digest because they just do not need the energy. The feed then will just sit in their belly's way too long. Leaving the door open to problems with digestion.

Cheers Don.