Method for Separating Normal Striped Bass Larvae from Those with Uninflated Gas Bladders
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Progressive Fish-Culturist
- Vol. 50 (3) , 166-169
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8640(1988)050<0166:mfsnsb>2.3.co;2
Abstract
The anesthetic tricaine was used to separate normally developing larvae of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) from larvae with uninflated gas bladders. The procedure was most successful between 23 and 40 d posthatch, and was used to provide thousands of striped bass larvae in which the frequency of gas bladder inflation exceeded 99%. Few normally developing fish were lost due to handling mortality or inadvertent disposal with fish having uninflated gas bladders. The procedure has applications in research, production-scale fish culture, and fishery management.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Fatty acids and starvation in larval striped bass (Morone saxatilis)Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Comparative Biochemistry, 1984
- Initial swim bladder inflation in the larvae of Tilapia mossambica (Peters) and Morone saxatilis (Walbaum)Aquaculture, 1979