Dietary fibre (DF) is defined as 'non-digestible carbohydrates plus lignin' and includes non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs), hydrocolloids, resistant starch, resistant oligosaccharides and lignin associated with DF polysaccharides (Stephen et al., 2017). DF is not digested and absorbed by monogastric animals (Sinha et al., 2011), but can be fermented by intestinal microbiota (Miao et al., 2018).Therefore, it can regulate the structure of intestinal microbiota and improve intestinal health (Lin et al., 2020). In addition, DF has bile acid (BA) binding capacity Naumann et al., 2019) and reduces its reabsorption (Moriceau et al., 2000).BAs are synthesized from cholesterol. Therefore, appropriate DF intake can decrease cholesterol (Chen et al., 2018) and hepatic steatosis (Brockman et al., 2014). However, the effect of excessive DF intake on fish, which occurs with an increasing number of plant ingredients being included in the diet, has not received enough attention.