“…Similar data have been reported for Scleropages formosus, Solea senegalensis and Glyptosternum maculatum (Natalia, Hashim, Ali, & Chong 2004;Saénz et al 2005;Xiong, Xie, Zhang, & Liu, 2011). Pepsin is the main acid protease in fish stomach, and the first protolithic enzyme requires it for breaking large polypeptide chains (Tengjaroenkul, Smith, Caceci, & Smith, 2000;Zhao, Budge, Ghaly, Brooks, & Dave, 2011); it showed an optimal pH of 2, reported earlier for S. senegalensis, Scophthalmus maximus L. and C. carpio L. (Saénz et al 2005;Wang, Wang, Wang, Xue, & Sun, 2006;Al-Saraji, & Nasir, 2013).…”