Short Note on a Culture Experiment on Monthly Captured Glass Eels from the Rio Minho, Portugal

✍ Scribed by Michael Weber; José Carlos Antunes

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 112 KB
• Volume: 75
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-2944
• DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19900750638

✦ Synopsis

A recycling system combining biofiltration and hydroponics waa used for rearing glass eels.

Growth rates varied between 0.1 and 1.4 % of body weight per feeding day. A large range of mortalities (94-93 %) after two months was mainly due to ectoparasitic infections.