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The effects of seasonal alterations in ration on fecundity and maturation in rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

N. Bromage  and
J. Jones
N. Bromage
Affiliation:
Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland
J. Jones
Affiliation:
Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland
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Feeding different groups of 1 year-old prepubertal female rainbow trout for 0, 4, 8 or 12 months on either high (1.0% body weight day-1) or low (0.4%) rations produced significant changes in fecundity, total egg volume and in the percentages of fish which spawned. Fish fed high ration for the first 4 or 8 months of the year-long cycle had up to 56% higher fecundities even after weight influences had been partitioned by covariance analysis. Groups of fish fed high ration for the first 4 months of the cycle included the highest percentages of spawning fish. By optimising feeding regimes commercial hatcheries could produce up to 3x more eggs from existing stocks.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1992 , March 1992 , pp. 81
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1992

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Bromage, et al (1990) Fecundity, egg size and total egg volume differences in 2 stocks of rainbow trout. Aquacult. & Fish. Man. 21, 269–284.Google Scholar