La reproduction des mollusques bivalves en écloserie

Optimal gametogenesis and egg-laying environment, fertility, number of egg-layings, reproductor ageing, relationship between parent characteristics and conditioning and farming success, are the main issues considered by bivalve hatcheries each time the reproduction of a species is taken care of. Even if there is still very little bibliographic data on this precise field, reproduction mechanisms have been studied for decades in Mytilidae and Ostreidae. Largely cultivated in open sea, they are indeed an experimental material of choice. In this paper, we will see how the acquired knowledge and the methods developed on this material can be used to carry out a study on bivalve reproduction in hatcheries.