Home > Crops & Livestock > Aquaculture > Other Finfish > Red Drum > An Aquaculture-Oriented Bibliography of the Red Drum, Sciaenops ocellatus [Image: Document cover image] This publication was designed to serve as a guide to aquaculture-related red drum (redfish) literature. The intended audience includes red drum producers as well as potential producers, investors and lenders. Red Drum: Production of Fingerlings and Stockers [Image: Production of Fingerlings and Stockers] Production of fingerling and stocker red drum is normally practiced by hatchery producers. At the same time, these are completely different operations and require different areas, practices and expertise. Usually the larvae are secured at an age of about 3 days, and one of two methods of production is used. Only pond culture production methods are presented here. Red Drum: Brood Stock and Hatchery Production [Image: Brood Stock and Hatchery Production] The securing of brood stock, inducing them to spawn and caring for the eggs until hatching require the most technical expertise of any phase of fish production. Red drum are no exception. Red Drum: Biology and Life History [Image: Biology and Life History] The red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) is a marine fish that naturally ranges from Central Mexico on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean. Red drum have been taken in small numbers by commercial fishermen on the Atlantic Coast for many years, but the species is important only on the Gulf Coast.  more articles... Red Drum Production: Collecting and Maintaining Wild Broodstock [Image: Collecting and Maintaining Wild Broodstock] Efforts to collect wild broodfish for hatchery production of red drum fingerlings are usually most successful during or just before the fall spawning period, although some success may be realized at other times. Red Drum: Production of Food Fish [Image: Production of Food Fish] There are two methods used in the production of food-sized red drum. The more conventional method is semi-intensive culture in ponds. The other method, intensive indoor raceway culture, is unproven from an economic standpoint. This publication focuses on pond production.