Abstract
Abstract Fifty-five adult gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) were transported from Gulf Breeze, Florida, to Beaufort, North Carolina, in 30 h without mortality. The life-support features during transport included a 600-L cylindrical, unbaffled fish tank, a continuous-duty pump, a filter using crushed oyster shells and activated carbon, tris-buffered seawater, oxygen, and monitors for temperature, oxygen, and pH. Spawning, induced by temperature, photoperiod, and injections of human chorionic gonadotropin and carp pituitary, occurred following transport and occurred nine times from November 1982 through March 1982. Larvae from two spawns were transported to the Gulf of Mexico for shipboard feeding experiments.
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