Preparation of this document
Abstract
Abbreviations and acronyms
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Chapter 1– |
Azov-Black and Caspian seas sturgeon taxonomy, biology, distribution and life history |
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1.1 |
Introduction |
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1.2 |
Biology, distribution and life history |
Chapter 2– |
Hatchery design |
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2.1 |
Basic requirements for hatchery design |
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2.2 |
Modernized hatchery schemes |
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2.3 |
Selection of the hatchery location |
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2.4 |
Hatchery structure |
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2.5 |
Hatchery water supply |
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2.6 |
Water quality requirements at sturgeon hatcheries |
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2.7 |
Recommendations on the structural improvement of existing hatcheries |
Chapter 3– |
Collection and transportation of wild breeders |
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3.1 |
Sites and periods of breeder collection |
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3.2 |
Transportation of broodstock to hatchery |
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3.3 |
Tagging of wild breeders |
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3.4 |
Main biological and reproductive indices of wild breeders |
Chapter 4– |
Broodstock management |
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4.1 |
Introduction |
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4.2 |
Late autumn assessment |
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4.3 |
Overwintering of breeders |
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4.4 |
Spring evaluation of gonad maturity status |
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4.5 |
Determination of prespawn holding regimes for broodstock |
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4.6 |
Hormonal induction of spawning |
Chapter 5– |
Spawning and gamete processing |
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5.1 |
Obtaining mature gametes |
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5.2 |
Egg incubation |
Chapter 6– |
Rearing of larvae, fry and fingerlings |
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6.1 |
Hatching and holding of prelarvae |
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6.2 |
Rearing of larvae |
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6.3 |
Fingerling rearing in ponds |
Chapter 7– |
Production of live food |
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7.1 |
Introduction |
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7.2 |
Cultivation of oligochaetes (enchytraeus albidus) |
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7.3 |
Cultivation of cladocerans (daphnia, moina) |
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7.4 |
Cultivation of artemia salina |
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7.5 |
cultivation of californian red worm (eisenia foetida) |
Chapter 8– |
Artificial reproduction of sturgeons based on the control of seasonalityy |
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8.1 |
Introduction |
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8.2 |
Collection of breeders |
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8.3 |
Transition of breeders to spawning temperature regime (STR) |
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8.4 |
Regime of egg incubation and thermal adaptation of prelarvae |
Chapter 9– |
Ecological-morphological and ethological- physiological express estimation of viability of sturgeon larvae, fry and fingerlings |
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9.1 |
Polyfunctional evaluation of larval and fingerling fitness indices |
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9.2 |
In vivo assessment methods: express tests |
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9.3 |
Anaphase method for counting chromosomal aberrations in larvae |
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9.4 |
The melanophores (pigment cells) background response |
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9.5 |
Teratological analysis of larvae and fingerlings |
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9.6 |
Physiological and biochemical evaluation of the state of standard hatchery-produced sturgeon juveniles |
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9.7 |
Evaluation of adaptive qualities of juveniles on the basis of central nervous system response |
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9.8 |
Neuro-pharmacological testing of juveniles |
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9.9 |
Fluctuating asymmetry as a statistical indicator of juvenile variability and for environmental stress evaluation |
Chapter 10– |
Release of fingerlings into natural waterbodies |
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10.1 |
Introduction |
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10.2 |
Methods for enumeration of released hatchery production |
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10.3 |
Release of fingerlings from ponds |
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10.4 |
Selection of optimal release sites |
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10.5 |
Transportation of fingerlings to release sites |
Chapter 11– |
The formation of domestic replacement and broodstock |
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11.1 |
Introduction |
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11.2 |
Genetic aspects of domestic broodstock formation |
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11.3 |
Fish farming and biological criteria for broodstock establishment |
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11.4 |
Rearing of broodstock in cages |
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11.5 |
Peculiarities of broodstock holding and handling |
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11.6 |
General recommendations on building broodstock sexual structure |
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11.7 |
Broodstock building in sturgeon pedigree farms and hatcheries |
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11.8 |
Optimum temperature conditions for sturgeon broodstock management |
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11.9 |
Morphological abnormalities in development of replacement and domestic broodstock |
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11.10 |
General testing of broodstock: genetic control of broodstock material |
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11.11 |
Adaptation of wild fish to artificial holding conditions |
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11.12 |
Transportation |
Chapter 12– |
Basic sanitary and fish health measures |
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12.1 |
Basic diseases of sturgeon |
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12.2 |
Clinical signs of the most common diseases |
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12.3 |
Methods for treatment and prevention |
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12.4 |
Preparations used for treatment of sturgeons |
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12.5 |
Use of antibiotics |
Chapter 13– |
Tagging |
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13.1 |
Tagging requirements |
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13.2 |
Tagging with pit tags |
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13.3 |
Tagging with cwt tags |
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13.4 |
A framework for developing an international programme of tagging hatchery-produced sturgeon juveniles |
Chapter 14– |
Early sexing and staging maturity in live sturgeons by using ultrasound techniques |
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14.1 |
Equipment for ultrasound diagnostics of sex and gonad maturity status in live sturgeons |
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14.2 |
Use of sonography for early determination of sex and gonad maturity stage |
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14.3 |
Ultrasound glossary |
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14.4 |
Anatomical structure and noninvasive detection of inner organs and tissues in sturgeons by ultrasound technique |
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14.5 |
Noninvasive detection of organs and tissues by ultrasound technique |
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14.6 |
Early sexing and staging maturity of sturgeons by using noninvasive express ultrasound technique |
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14.7 |
Ultrasound diagnostics of developmental anomalies in the reproductive system of sturgeon (pathologic echoanatomy) |
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14.8 |
Noninvasive measurements of linear characteristic and calculation of volumetric parametrs of inner organs |
Literature cited |
Annexes |
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1 – |
List of species of the Acipenseriformes |
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2 – |
Design of the artificial spawning channel for seminatural reproduction of sturgeon |
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3 – |
Relationship between τ0 and temperature for four sturgeon species |
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4 – |
Effective breeding number (Ne) |