Controlling the Sex of Salmonids

摘要

There are major economic advantages to controlling sexual development in fish.Modern technologies allow for the production of monosex or sterile stocks that have several advantages. Female fish generally are more valuable than males because of the high value of eggs and the production of offspring. The use of stocks that are either all female or sterile also eliminates the occurrance of sexually precocious males, which are economically undesireable. This manual povides methodologies that one can use to produce all-female, all-male, or sterile (including triploid) stocks of salmonids for aquaculture. Furthermore, the manual describes not only the 'recipies,' but the theory behind the methods.