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Gonadal Development of Adriatic Cage-reared Tuna - Ivana Miletic, Ivona Mladineo, Leon Grubisic

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Bluefin tuna is subjected to an intensive fishing pressure which has raised questions concerning the proper stock management and its survival. Thus, the knowledge of tuna reproductive biology is extremely important in order to allow the management of the species, aimed to its conservation, as well as to enhance the possibility of its domestification.However, today our knowledge of tuna reproductive biology is limited to research based on egg and larvae distribution, to seasonal variations of tuna gonadosomatix index and pure macroscopic classification of gonadal development. The major reason for this lack of knowledge is that samples are not easily available because of the price of trunks or hard manipulation with live fish.
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GONADAL DEVELOPMENT OF ADRIATIC CAGE- REARED TUNA Ivana Miletić*, Ivona Mladineo, Leon Grubišić Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development* Institute of Oceanography & Fisheries
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GONADAL DEVELOPMENT OF ADRIATIC CAGE-REARED TUNAIvana Mileti *, Ivona Mladineo, Leon Grubi iMinistry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development* Institute of Oceanography & Fisheries

Introduction

Intense fishing pressure survival of the stock? Reproduction: - egg & larvae distribution - Ig variations - macroscopic classification of gonads Major reason sample hard to get

Nowadays knowledge

E Atlantic: May August (Rodrigues-Roda, 1967) W Atlantic: May (Baglin, 1982) Mediterranean: middle of June (Susca et al, 2001) and March August (Metrio et al, 2003) S Adriatic: atretic folliculi in spawners Vitellogenin + in 120 m oocytes

Nowadays researches

Vitellogenin in plasma (ELISA, IRA) and oocytes (IHC) Oestradiol & testosteron in plasma Classical histology & oocyes diameter

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Daily temperatures during years (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,2004.)

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JANUARY'03 15,2 15,2 15,1 15,2 15,3 15,2 15,2 14,6 14,7 14,5 14,8 14,5 14,6 13,5 13,5 13,3 14,1 13,9 13,4 13,3 13,3 13,2 13,7 13,9 14 14,2 14,3 14,3 14,3 14,6 14,3 FEBRUARY'03 13,4 13,4 14,2 13,4 13,4 13,3 13,3 12,8 13,6 13,6 13,6 13,5 13,2 13,3 13,2 13,1 13 12,9 12,8 12,8 12,7 12,7 12,8 12,9 12,9 13 13 13,3 13,3 13,4 13,4 MARCH'03 JUNE'03 JULY'03 AUGUST'03 13,4 13,6 13,5 13,4 13,6 13,2 13,4 13,2 13,3 13,2 13,4 13,5 13,4 13,4 13,3 13,2 13,2 13,2 13,1 13,1 13,1 13,1 13,1 13,1 13,2 13,5 13,6 13,6 13,6 13,5 13,5 21,1 21,2 21,2 21,4 20,9 19,6 21 20,8 21,4 22,8 22,1 21,5 22,3 22,3 22,5 22,7 24,6 23,4 23 23,4 23,1 23,2 23,1 23,7 23,4 23,9 24 24,1 24,2 24,5 24,3 25,3 26 25,9 25,7 25,7 25,1 23,5 22,2 23 23,4 24 24,1 24 24 23,3 24,5 24,5 24,5 24 23,9 23 23,4 23,5 24,6 25,2 23,2 23,4 23,4 24,8 23,2 23,4 24 24,2 24,3 24,5 25,3 25 24,5 24,8 24,9 25 25,2 25,9 25,3 25,1 25,5 25,5 25,6

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Materials & MethodsSamples: mortalities (early summer) & harvested fish (winter) Two categories: 5 kg and 30 kg Measurement: Lf, Wb, Wg Histology: paraffin embedded, 5 m sections, hematoxylin-eozin stained

ResultsEarly maturation: over 20 kg in most cases : - in February first oogonia (4.45 kg!) - oocites 54.76 26.38 (previtellogenic stage) in January (53.8 kg) : - spermatogonia in January (53.8 kg) - postspawning period: August (22.5 kg)

Conclusions

Adipose and connective tissue: 5 10 kg First visible sex differentiation: over 20 kg Spawners: over 30 kg Spawning period: June August No atresia no spawning Development temperature- & indivudual-dependent Future: monthly sampling from entrance in cages till 2nd summer


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