Les variations de la fécondité de la coquille Saint-Jacques de la Rade de Brest en écloserie au cours du cycle annuel

Among the different biological factors which can have an impact on the recruitment of the king scallop, the relationship between the number of produced oocytes and the number of obtained larvae can be tackled from an experimental point of view. In the framework of the repopulation program of the roadsted of Brest (king scallop pluri-annual program), the hatchery spat production trials (Buestel et al., 1982) enabled the monitoring of the variations of the real fertility of Pecten maximus over a year cycle. The natural egg-laying period in the roadsted of Brest spreads from June through to September, but egg-laying can also be triggered artificially all year long. The results obtained during production trials in 1982-1983 and the action of low temperatures are described.