1979년 8월 태국에서 Clarias batrachus 자어 100미를 도입하여 그 중 10미를 제주대학양식학과양어실험실에서 친어까지 사육하였다. 성장은 자어에서 29일후 체장 5cm 전후 체중 1.43g으로 성장하였고, 260일후에는 약 206g으로 성장하였다. 1980년 10월 11일 3미의 암컷에 Chorionic gona-dotrophin $1sim2;IU$ 씩 주사하여, 그 중 1미가 10월14일에 산난하여 약 1,500개의 수정난을 얻었고 22시간 후 완전히 부화하여 그후 먹이를 갈 먹고 자란 건강한 자어 약 1,300미를 얻었다.
Fry of a Siamic catfish Clarias batrachus was brought to Korea on August 14,1979 and exper-imentally reared for a whole life cycle in a small water recycling aquarium. After 29 days since start of feeding the fry were measured 5 cm in 1ength and 1.43 g in body weight and after 260 days they were measured 205.7 g average. Chorionic gonadotrophin (2 IU) was injected to a healthy female (224 g) and after 63 hours fertilized eggs were obtained in a small water recycling aquarium. About 1,300 fry were hatched out 20 hours after spawning at $30^{circ}C$ constant water temperature. The fry began to feed on water fleas 53 hours after hatching. My sincere thanks are due to Mr. Panu Tavarutmaneegu1, Mr. Chanchai Sansrimahachai and Miss Revadee Spriprasert, National Inland Fisheries Institute, Bangkok, Thailand for their cooperative arrangement to bring the fry of Clarias batrachus to Korea for this experiment.
