Virtual tour to salmon farming

The broodstock are the parents of all the farmed fish. They are often very big and strong. The broodstock are kept in vessels in specialised broodstock farms. The fish from which eggs and milt are taken must be anaesthetised. Anesthesia is totally safe and the effect is gone within a few minutes.

The process to take eggs from the female fish and milt from the male fish is called stripping. Stripping is exercised with smooth backward strokes along the belly of the fish. When eggs and milt are mixed the result is fertilised eggs. To allow the fertilisation to take place, water has to be added to the mixture. After a few minutes the eggs are washed to get rid of the excess milt. Then the clean eggs are placed in the hatchery. In the hatchery the eggs are laid in slowly running fresh water. The time period to hatching is dependent upon the water temperature. At approximately 8 degrees Celsius the eggs will hatch at around 60 days.