The Establishment of a potential Halibut Broodstock at Ardtoe 1987

Summary

Halibut Cultivation trials have been initiated at Ardtoe, N.W. Scotland. A potential Broodstock has been established by Ongrowing immature fish, captured from the wild between 1981 and 1985, In 1987, 12 Female Halibut reached maturity, and hand stripping resulted in 56 batches of eggs being fertilised and incubated. This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish.

Publication Reference No.

SR317

Publication date

01 July 1987