Ether Anesthesia of Steelhead Trout
- 1 January 1941
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 70 (1) , 272-274
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1940)70[272:eaost]2.0.co;2
Abstract
The use of anesthetics offers numerous advantages when handling, marking, or spawning fish which are susceptible to fungus diseases and injuries. Small trout were weighed and measured easily while anesthetized. Steelhead trout, under anesthesia, were very easy to spawn artificially and the loss from eggs so obtained was less than average hatchery losses of eggs for the species. A 1 1/2 per cent aqueous solution of ether anesthetized trout effectively in 45 to 90 seconds and these fish remained relaxed when placed in fresh water for 3 to 20 minutes.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: