Steelhead Trout Eggs WA

Oncorhynchus mykiss.

All female and triploid eyed rainbow trout eggs.

For organic and commercial finfish rearing for food, sport fisheries and stream restocking.

All female eggs.
All female eggs are preferred by commercial trout farmers throughout the world to maximize their farm's potential through these significant benefits:

• Firmer, more palatable flesh.
• Better feed conversion.
• Higher quality, healthier fish due to fewer males.
• Less unmarketable, precocious males at dress out time.
• Excellent market presentation of trout at any time of year.

Triploid trout eggs.
3N sterile trout with +99% induction rates in the triploid process, presenting many benefits:

• Better flesh quality compared to diploids.
• Growth to larger sizes as all energy is transferred to growing rather than reproduction.
• Comparable growth to diploid populations early in the life cycle.
• More efficient and productive use of hatchery facilities from removal of reproducing fish.
• Fish are suitable for release without genetic impacts, as they cannot breed with native populations.

These benefits make triploid fish eggs the perfect solution for farmers needing a sterile salmonid for the following situations:

• Growth past the normal period of reproduction.
• Production of trophy sized fish for recreational purposes.
• Prevention of reproduction in released or escaped fish.

Steelhead trout is native to cold water tributaries of the Pacific basin in Northeast Asia and North America. Like other sea run (anadromous) trout and salmon, steelhead spawn in freshwater, smolts migrate to the ocean to forage for several years and adults return to their natal streams to spawn after living two to three years in the ocean.