revealed no significant difference between the fecundity
of the two groups. Moreover our observation showed a
tendency of increasing fecundity with age in the
neofemales. A neofemale of 10months old with
comparable size to the neofemales used in this study
(CL=3.24) produced as many as 68,876 eggs (Rungsin
et al., unpublished data), suggesting that fecundity
would not be a problem in using the neofemale
technology for aquaculture.