Controlling the sex ratio is essential in finfish farming. A balanced sex ratio is usually good
for broodstock management, since it enables to develop appropriate breeding schemes …

Temperate fish species are annual spawners and mainly rely on annually cycling cues
(temperature and photoperiod) to synchronise the three main phases of their reproductive …

The salmon louse is an ectoparasitic copepod that causes major economic losses in the
Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry. To assess the efficacy of lumpfish grazing on attached …

The effects of temperature and salinity on growth and feed conversion of juvenile turbot
(initial mean weight 14 g) were investigated by rearing fish at (mean±SD) 10±0.2° C …

Growth rate of tagged juvenile turbot was significantly influenced by the interaction of
temperature and fish size. The results suggest the optimum temperature for growth of …

The embryonic gonad is the only organ that takes two mutually exclusive differentiating
pathways and hence gives rise to two different adult organs: testes or ovaries. The recent …

Mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi) is one of the most important commercial fish in aquaculture
in the world. As females grow faster than males, the cultivation of all-female mandarin fish …

The growth of 100 sea bass feminized by estradiol treatment and 200 individually tagged
controls was followed from the age of 10 months [27±1.7 g, mean±confidence interval …

This study determined the effect of triploidy on the survival, growth and gonadal
development of turbot from 6 to 48 months of age. From 6 to 24 months of age (first sexual …

Exposure of adolescent turbot Scophthalmus maximus to low rations during vitellogenesis,
covering the 4 months immediately prior to spawning, led to a drop of 70% in mean ovary …