Turbot
Flat large
Microbaq M
In the Baltic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean up to Marroco, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
It mainly eats fishes even if it also eats crustaceans and mollusks.
Trawl ships.
Tanks or cages.
It is a gonocoric species with separated sexs. Spawning is possible by taking gametes (semen and eggs) out of the breeding parents. Females undergo ovulation cycles in about 70-90 hours. Embryo development takes 60-70 days. After the egg hatching, turbot larvae are 0.11-0.12in long.
Larval cultivation
- Temperature: 64.4-68ºF
- Salinity: 30-35 per mille
- Oxygen: > 7 ppm
- Density: 1.36-2.84 l/p
- Survival: 15-40%
- Egg diameter: 0.04-0.05 in
- Length larva: 0.11-0.12 in
Fattening
- Temperature: 57.2-62.6ºF
- Salinity:30-35 per mille
- Oxygen: > 5 ppm
- Load: 4.09-8.18 lb/ft²
- Duration: 24-27 months
- Final weight: 3.31-4.41lb
- Survival: 90%