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Comparison of Fish Breeding Characteristics and Survival Rate of Offspring of Domesticated and Grown “from Eggs” Russian Sturgeon Acipenser gueldenstaedtii (Acipenseridae) Females, at Artificial Reproduction

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The results of a comparative assessment of domesticated (caught in the wild and cultivated) and aquaculture (grown “from eggs”) females of Russian sturgeon in terms of weight, fecundity, duration of the interspawning interval, number of eggs in the control sample, survival rate of their offspring in the embryonic period and juveniles in the Caspian Sea have been presented. Both groups of females are similar in most of the above indicators, with the exception of the number of females producing eggs suitable for insemination, the proportion of which is much larger in the group of domesticated fish. The groups also differ in offspring survival rate, which is significantly lower in fish that have reached sexual maturity in aquaculture. With the existing methods of keeping spawners grown from eggs, as their age increases (third-fourth maturation), an increase in the survival rate of the offspring obtained from them was not noted. The high survival rate of embryos (78%) allows the use of aquaculture females for the restoration of natural populations of the Caspian sturgeon, while the main emphasis is still on domesticated fish.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are deeply grateful to all employees of the Alexandrovsky and Lebyazhy sturgeon breeding farms of the Caspian Branch of the Main Basin Administration for Fisheries and Conservation of Aquatic Biological Resources for their active participation and assistance in collecting factual material, the staff of the Caspian Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries for organizing and participating in cruises to collect material in the Caspian Sea, and the staff of the Laboratory of the Molecular geneticists of VNIRO for their help in processing the genetic material, and to anonymous reviewers for analysis of the paper and useful comments.

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The research was carried out within the framework of the state assignment of VNIRO No. 076-00007-22-00 and work program No. 1 “Sturgeons of the Caspian Sea”.

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Safronov, A.S., Mugue, N.S., Barmintseva, A.E. et al. Comparison of Fish Breeding Characteristics and Survival Rate of Offspring of Domesticated and Grown “from Eggs” Russian Sturgeon Acipenser gueldenstaedtii (Acipenseridae) Females, at Artificial Reproduction. J. Ichthyol. 62, 1466–1475 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945222060261

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