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Voluntary spawning of captive Nassau groupers Epinephelus striatus in a concrete raceway

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Date Issued:
1996
Title: Voluntary spawning of captive Nassau groupers Epinephelus striatus in a concrete raceway.
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Name(s): Tucker, John W., Jr., creator
Woodward, Peter N., creator
Sennett, Daniel G., creator
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1996
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Extent: 12 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3327215 (digitool), FADT3327215 (IID), fau:6095 (fedora), 10.1111/j.1749-7345.1996.tb00622.x (doi)
Note(s): Nassau groupers Epinephelus striatus held in a 37-m3 concrete raceway were conditioned to spawn 3 mo later than in their home waters. After being held in the raceway for 15 mo, four female and two male groupers spawned voluntarily over a 4-d period in March 1994, producing 10.3 million eggs. By December 1994, two females had been removed. During March 1995, one of the remaining two females spawned on three consecutive days (60 cm TL, 1,172,000 eggs) and the other only on the third day (47 cm TL, 488,000 eggs). In April 1995, three females (including one held in isolation for 6 mo, then replaced 6 d before the first spawn) produced more than 9.8 million eggs in 4 d.
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ and may be cited as: Tucker, J. W., Jr., Woodward, P. N., & Sennett, D. J. (1996). Voluntary spawning of captive Nassau groupers Epinephelus striatus in a concrete raceway. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 27(4), 373-383. doi:10.1111/j.1749-7345.1996.tb00622.x
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1085.
Subject(s): Epinephelus striatus
Nassau grouper
Spawning
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3327215
Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-7345.1996.tb00622.x
Restrictions on Access: ©1996 World Aquaculture Society. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Host Institution: FAU