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Live fish handling (Updated 2013 version)

This lecture was delivered in “Fish Culture Development” training course during October 2013. This 10-week international training course is annually hosted by the Egyptian International Centre for Agriculture (EICA). The lecture addresses key handling issues related to aquaculture practices including: Stocking (thermal acclimation, pH acclimation, salinity acclimation, osmosis, doubtful shipments, enumeration) Sampling (sampling frequency, sampling …

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Fish egg fertilization (illustrated)

This single slide shows the mechanism of egg fertilization in fish and some factors that could retard or enhance fertilization. This summary shows that blood clotting that could result of improper handling of female fish during eggs can close the very tiny opening that each egg has and known by micropyle preventing any entry of …

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