ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTION

 

 

 

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The amount of young fish caught is not always enough in which case artificial reproduction is used.
1 - The fish used for breeding are reared in breeding basins on specific nutritives. 

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2 - The best speciemens are caught and ...

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3 -... treated with hormone stimulators.

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4 - Female's eggs and milt from males are transferred in laying tanks whwre fertilization take place. 

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5 - The spawn is collected and...

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6 - ... put into hatcheries where hatching takes place about 48 hours later.

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7 - The fry are fed with a complex zoophyte plankton food chain.

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8 - The fry complete their metamorphosis in the fry-basin.

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