Potentials of some medicinal plants as fertility enhancing agents in fish

The potentials of some medicinal plants that enhance fertility in animals were highlighted. Though, these medicinal plants can be used for other purposes but this paper focused on the fertility potential of the plants on animals. Some of the plants such as date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), wild yam (Discorea villosa) and Focus capensis had been discovered to enhance fertility in rats, monkey and poultry. Therefore if these medicinal plants could work on rats and poultry for fertility enhancement, the plants could as well be tried on fish so as to enhance the fecundity and sperm production in female and male brooders which will eventually lead to increase in fish seeds production. However, research is on going on the use of some medicinal plants to enhance fecundity and sperm production in male and female brooders in order to increase fingerlings production which would subsequently lead to increase in fish production.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Dada, A.A., Fagbenro, O.A, Ogunwo, M.F.
Format:	conference_item biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	FISON 2008
Subjects:	Aquaculture, Fisheries, Nigeria, freshwater environment, Fertility, Aquatic plants,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1834/37961
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