AS-505
Sea Grant Tip Sheet Series |
 Golden shinerRichard T.Bryant and Wayne C. Starnes The fishes of Tennessee |
| Common name: | Golden shiner |
| Scientific name: | Notemigonus crysoleucas
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| Production potential: | Easy |
| Marketing potential: | Potential: High Size: 2-6 inches Market: Bait |
| Temperature requirements: | Growing: 50-80oF Spawning: 70-85oF Lethal: NA |
| Feed requirements: | Protein: 30-38% Fat: 3-8% |
| Spawning requirements: | Spawns May -June, 75,000 eggs/lb body weight. Eggs hatch in 4-9 days at spawning temperature. Three methods are used to produce fry. The first is the wild or free-spawning method which 20-40 pounds of broodstock are left to spawn in ponds. Egg hatching and growing of yound to marketable size occur in the same pond. The second method is the egg transfer method. In this method the broodstock spawn on spawning mats place in shallow water along the shore. When mats are covered with eggs, they are moved to rearing ponds. The final method is the fry transfer method. In this method fry produced from either wild spawning or the egg transfer method are trapped and counted then transferred to rearing ponds. |
| Most common production systems: |
Ponds. Fry are stocked at a rate of 50,000-300,000 per acre. |
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