Spawning and Rearing Atlantic Menhaden
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Progressive Fish-Culturist
- Vol. 43 (2) , 80-84
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1981)43[80:saram]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Two-year-old Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) held in the laboratory at ambient temperatures and salinities for more than 1 year, were induced to spawn by injecting first human chorionic gonadotropin and then carp pituitary powder. Spawning took place at temperatures of 16 to 20°C in a 2,100-L indoor tank modified to recover the buoyant fertilized eggs. Larvae were reared to the juvenile stage on a diet of cultured rotifers (Brachionus plicatilus), sieved wild zooplankton (64 to 500 µm), brine shrimp (Artemia salina) nauplii, and powdered trout food.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Artificial Fertilization among Yellowfin and Gulf Menhaden (Brevoortia) and Their HybridTransactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1968