Overview
Explaining the term artificial breeding. The importance of artificial breeding. The various stepsinvolved in an artificial breeding.
What you'll learn
- Artificial breeding:
- - manipulating the sexually matured fish to spawn or reproduce.
- Importance of artificial breeding:
- i. To obtain fish
- ii. To obtain large quantity of fish
- iii. To obtain high quality hybrids
- iv. To make thefingerlings readily available
- Various steps:
- i. Brood stock selection
- ii. Conditioning of brood stock
- iii. Inducement of the brood stock
- iv. Stripping the brood stock
- v. Fertilization (mixing the milt and egg)
- vi. Incubating the fertilized egg in aquarium or hatchery tanks/trouqhs etc.