Dietary amino acid requirements of pebbly fish, Alestes baremoze (Joannis, 1835) based on whole body amino acid composition

•Alestes baremoze is a valuable food fish with a wide geographical distribution in Africa.•The culture of A. baremoze will greatly depend on the development of appropriate aquaculture feeding technologies.•The estimated amino acid requirement profiles of A. baremoze were found to be similar to other omnivorous fish species.•The present data could be used to develop amino acid test diets until dose-response data is available.