“…Higher weight gain and SGR of abalone fed all formulated diets compared to those of abalone fed the dry U. pinnatifida in this study was well supported by other studies showing the nutrition‐balanced formulated diets achieved improvement in growth performance of abalone over the single MA, such as Macrocystis pyrifera Linnaeus, Gracilariopsis bailinae Zhang and Xia, U. pinnatifida or S. japonica (Ansary et al, , ; Bautista‐Teruel & Millamena, ; Cho, Park, Kim, Yoo, & Lee, ; Choi et al, ; Jang et al, ; Jung et al, ; Myung et al, ; Viana, López, & Salas, ). Especially, rice bran was the good alternative source for S. japonica in abalone feed when 200 g/kg S. japonica was included (Kim et al, ).…”