source. This confirms the findings of Lee et al. (1998), thatmost abalone
species can efficiently use carbohydrates as energy source instead of
lipid. Carefoot et al. (1993), noted that glycogen reserveswere depleted
after 27 days of starvation in the foot muscle of Haliotis kamtschatkana,
but were spared in relative level in gonad tissue suggesting that this
species of abalone uses mostly carbohydrate rather than lipid as a
preferential energy.