Page 59 - Koi Net - On-Line Koi Magazine - Issue 92
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Mark explained the whole
                                                                                           spawning process to us,
                                                                                           including how the team
                                                                                           hand strip both the male
                                                                                           and female Koi.














                                                                                           MARK RAN              ■  We moved on from the very hot tunnel to the
                                                                                                                    selection area which has been expanded and
                                                                                           THROUGH                  improved over the years I have been going to the
                                                                                           THE WHOLE                farm. Mark was at pains to point out it was a
                                                                                                                    selection area and not a culling area as, unlike in say
                                                                                           PROCESS FROM             Japan, no fish end up in a bucket meeting an

                                                                                           BREEDING TO              untimely end and they have an outlet for all the fry
                                                                                                                    that do not make the grade for sale. In this much
                                                                                           SELECTION                cooler room, Mark ran through the whole breeding,
                                                                                                                    hatching, growing and selection process.
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