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Effect of temperature on the development of eggs and the daily pattern of spawning of round herring Etrumeus teres

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Effect of temperature on the development of eggs of round herring Etrumeus teres was experimentally examined to construct a temperature-dependent egg development model. Mature fish were collected in the field and their eggs were artificially fertilized onboard. The eggs were incubated at nine temperatures set between 14.0 and 25.0°C. All eggs at the lowest three temperatures, 14.0°C, 15.0°C, and 16.0°C, ceased development and died at various stages before hatching. Durations required to hatching after fertilization ranged from 38.0 h at 25.0°C to 90.0 h at 17.5°C. The temperature-dependent egg development model, i.e., egg age in hours (y i,t ) at the ith stage and temperature t (°C), was expressed as: y i,t  = 4.604 × exp(−0.100 × t −0.129 × i) × i 2.593. From the application of the model to early-stage eggs collected in the field, it is concluded that round herring starts spawning immediately after sunset and almost completes spawning by midnight. The temperature-dependent egg development model and the daily pattern of spawning presented in this study are essential tools for developing the daily egg production method to estimate the spawning stock biomass.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support provided by the captain and crew of the T/V Ten-yo Maru (National Fisheries University) and also thank Yukio Iwatsuki (Miyazaki University) for his helpful advice at the inception of this research and Tatsuro Akamine (National Research Institute of Fisheries Science) for his valuable comments on model construction.

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    Shinji Uehara

  2. National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fukuura, Kanazawa, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-8648, Japan

    Takumi Mitani

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Uehara, S., Mitani, T. Effect of temperature on the development of eggs and the daily pattern of spawning of round herring Etrumeus teres . Fish Sci 75, 159–165 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12562-008-0014-8

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