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Water is delivered to the side of the tank using an elbow pipe or a spray bar to create a circulation of water. The drain is in the centre of the tank and is protected by a mesh screen. This position ensures that the water forms a vortex towards the centre that accumulates wastes for easy removal.
The sump or drain pipe is connected to an elbow pipe on the side of the tank that can be used to regulate water level. Fry are fed specially prepared starter feeds using automatic feeders, starting from when approximately 50 percent have reached the swim-up stage. When most fish are actively feeding, 10 percent of the fish weight should be introduced daily for weeks, preferably on a continuous basis using clockwork belt feeders.
The feed pellets, made of fish meal 80 percent , fish oils and grains, provide nutritional balance, encouraging growth and product quality, and are formulated to contain approximately 50 percent protein, percent fat, vitamins A, D and E , minerals calcium, phosphorus and sodium and a pigment to achieve pink flesh where desirable.
High-energy commercial feeds and good feeding practices yield FCRs as low as 0. When the fry are mm long feeding is based on published charts, related to temperature and fish size.
Automatic feeders are useful but hand feeding is recommended in the early stages to ensure overfeeding does not occur, although demand feeders are more efficient for larger fish.
As growth continues, dissolved oxygen is monitored and fish moved to larger tanks to reduce density. These can comprise concrete raceways, flow-through Danish ponds, or cages. Individual raceways and ponds are typically m wide, m long and Raceways provide well-oxygenated water and water quality can be improved by increasing flow rates; however, the stock is vulnerable to external water quality, and ambient water temperatures significantly influence growth rates.
The number of raceways or ponds in a series varies with the pH [low pH 6. A typical raceway or pond layout is shown above. For hygiene, water quality, and controlling disease problems the parallel design is better, as any contamination flows through only a small part of the system. Fish are grown on to marketable size cm , usually within 9 months, although some fish are grown on to larger sizes over 20 months.
Fish quantity and size sampling twice a month allows estimations of growth rates, feed conversions, production costs, and closeness to carrying capacity to be calculated; essential considerations for proper farm management.
Alternative on-growing systems for trout include cage culture 6 m by 6 m by m deep production systems where fish up to , are held in floating cages in freshwater and marine past fingerling stage environments, ensuring good water supply and sufficient dissolved oxygen. This method is technically simple, as it uses existing water bodies at a lower capital cost than flow-through systems; however, stocks are vulnerable to external water quality problems and fish eating predators rats and birds , and growth rates depend on ambient temperature.
Fry of about 70 g weight can attain 3 kg in less than 18 months. Feeds for rainbow trout have been modified over the years and cooking-extrusion processing of foods now provide compact nutritious pelleted diets for all life stages.
Pellets made in this way absorb high amounts of added fish oil and permit the production of high-energy feeds, with over 16 percent fat. Dietary protein levels in feeds have increased from percent and dietary fat levels now exceed 22 percent in high energy feeds. Feed formulations for rainbow trout use fish meal, fish oil, grains and other ingredients, but the amount of fish meal has reduced to less than 50 percent in recent years by using alternative protein sources such as soybean meal.
These high energy diets, are efficiently converted by the rainbow trout, often at food conversion ratios of close to Feeding methods vary for production systems. Hand feeding is suitable for small fish eating fine food. Mechanical feeders, driven by electricity or solar power, are frequently used to feed set amounts at set intervals depending on fish size, temperature and season. Demand feeders can be used for fish greater than 12 cm. Methods of harvesting vary but water levels in the holding facilities are generally lowered and the fish netted out.
In pens and cages, the fish are crowded using sweep nets and are either pumped from the holding pen alive and transported to the slaughter plant, generally by well boat, or slaughtered on the side of the pens. The whole process is carried out with the aim of keeping stress to a minimum, thus maximising flesh quality.
Fish intended for restocking for angling purposes are handled carefully and checked for fin quality, size and any external signs of disease before being put into a special pond to await transport. Fish destined for the table are killed humanely after similar, but less stringent, checks.
Before slaughter, all fish should be starved for 3 days and, once killed humanely, the head should be left on; beheaded fish spoil more quickly. Rainbow trout are supplied to markets either fresh or frozen, and their shelf life is days if kept on ice. Trout are marketed as gutted whole fish, fillets often boneless , or as value-added products, such as smoked trout. As with any business, rainbow trout farms aim to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. There are a variety of diseases and parasites that can affect rainbow trout in aquaculture, which are summarised in the table below.
Prevention is the most important measure; good hatchery sanitation by restricting access, installing disinfectant footbaths and disinfecting equipment reduces the exposure of vulnerable fish to disease-causing agents. In some cases antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals have been used in treatment but their inclusion in this table does not imply an FAO recommendation. Each producing country has a government authority responsible for upholding statutory requirements, such as licensing, discharge control, notifiable disease control, etc.
The supply of diagnostic services may be carried out by government departments or private organisations or individuals. The production of rainbow trout has grown exponentially since the s, especially in Europe and more recently in Chile. The other main species of freshwater trout are brook trout , brown trout, cutthroat trout, and lake trout. The main subspecies of rainbows are Golden Trout and Redband Trout, which have populations naturally living in specific rivers in the Pacific States and Midwest of the United States, and are stocked outside of those areas.
Rainbow trout are often called redband trout in areas east of the Cascade mountains in the United States and the upper FraserRiver of British Columbia. Rainbow trout are prevalent among anglers and are in the top five sport fishes in North America. Many anglers consider this trout species to be the most essential sport fish west of the Rocky Mountains. Rainbows and Yellowstone cutthroat trout are the only two species of Pacific trout. In North America, Rainbow trout were native only to the lakes and rivers west of the Rocky Mountains.
Native rainbows generally live in watersheds west of the Cascades. Most rainbow trout populations outside of their native range are domesticated steelhead. Because of its popularity as a game fish, the rainbow trout population has expanded into cold lakes and streams worldwide.
Rainbow trout fish get their name from the shiny colorful markings of their skin. The colors of this fish vary depending on gender, habitat, and age. The coloration on their back generally ranges from Olive to brown to dark blue. Rainbow trout are torpedo-shaped and have a pinkish stripe that runs along the side of their bodies. They have a silvery underside that fades into a pearl white on the mid-belly.
Rainbow trout have small black spots all over their bodies, including their backs, fins, and tail. They reach maturity at around 16 inches in length and weigh between two and eight pounds.
Males have an elongated snout when mature, and females have a short rounded nose. Like their salmon cousins, they can grow rather large, averaging 20 to 30 inches in length and eight pounds. However, they can grow as large as four feet long and weigh 53 pounds. The average life span of a rainbow trout population in the wild is four to six years.
Rainbow trout are opportunistic feeders and will eat anything from aquatic and terrestrial insects, to fish eggs, to small minnows, to crustaceans and worms. Rainbow trout found primarily east of the Cascade Mountains in the U. Native rainbow trout are generally found in watersheds west of the Cascades. Due to popularity as a game fish, they have been introduced into streams and lakes all over North America. Whirling disease has developed in the last several decades and is a threat to trout fisheries across the United States.
Primarily affecting hatchery-raised rainbow trout and other salmonids, whirling disease is caused by a microscopic parasite that causes fingerling trout to grow with badly curved spines and other skeletal deformities that can result in high fingerling mortality.
Found in 22 states to date, whirling disease made its most significant appearance in wild waters in in Colorado upper Colorado River and Montana Madison River. Significant efforts are being made to understand whirling disease through research and management of hatchery-raised rainbow trout and wild trout populations with the goal of protecting rainbow trout and other native trout fisheries nationwide.
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