Abstract: A fish grader having a boxlike frame with at least one barred side with a net attached outside the frame. The grader is placed in water and fish to be sorted are put in it. The smaller fish swim through the bars into the net, leaving the larger fish in the grader box, from which they can be released into a rearing enclosure.
Abstract: Alevins or sac fry can be efficiently incubated under crowded conditions such that the biomass-to-water weight ratio is between 48:1 and 100:1; provided that oxygenated water--rather than aerated water--is circulated through the incubator. Preferably, the water, when leaving the incubator contains approximately seven to fifty milligrams per liter of dissolved oxygen.