AQUATIC SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING, cilt.36, sa.2, ss.95-100, 2021 (ESCI)
In this study, the quality and reproductive success of wild Black Sea Trout (Salmo trutta labrax) were investigated. In total 32 wild trout (27.3 +/- 13.6 g and 13.9 +/- 2.3 cm) from the Bicki Stream in Kocaeli Province in the Marmara Region were kept in circular fiberglass outdoor flow-through tanks (1.5m empty set) at the mean water temperature of 11.8 +/- 4.5 degrees C. In November 2016, when the water temperature was 8.4 degrees C, the first spawning of wild trout occurred. Sperm volume (ml), Motility (%) and VCL (mu m/sec) values were determined to be 7.5 +/- 2.5, 70.42 +/- 0.83 and 70.35 +/- 3.98, respectively. The weight (g), total fecundity and egg diameter (mm) values of female fish were listed to be 513.75 +/- 78, 1.171 +/- 171, and 3.84 +/- 0.02, respectively. In the experiment, 5.859 wild Black sea trout eggs were fertilized. The eyed-egg stage occurred 24 days (288 day-degree) post fertilization and the survival rate from fertilization to the eyed-stage was 28%. Wild Black Sea trout larvae from P1 (Paternal Generation) hatched 48 days after fertilization with the hatching rate of 7%.