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Collecting salmon eggs

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Collecting salmon eggs

Before salmon farming can begin, selected females are stripped of their eggs, which are then mixed with milt (sperm) from male salmon. The fertilised eggs are incubated in a freshwater hatchery. Here, salmon farmers collect ripe eggs from a broodstock female.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Aquaculture – Salmon, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/4754/collecting-salmon-eggs (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.