Finfish Breeding and Hatchery Management (2+1)

Unit 6 - Breeding of common carp

6.2. Care of brood-stock

• Brood fish is reared in manured pond.
• Initially fed with conventional feed; as the maturity advances they are fed with a special feed, consisting of rice bran, oil cake, fish meal, cereals, grams, mineral and vitamin mixture.
• It matures within 4-6 months in a tropical country like India and can spawn in the pond in the presence of weeds, twigs, etc.
• Hence, sex-wise segregation and rearing them in separate pond is necessary to avoid accidental spawning.
• The fecundity is 0.5-1.0 lakh eggs per kg female.
• Females grow slightly faster than males.
  
  
  

A haul of common carp brooders