Normally the stripped eggs have to be fertilized and put into hatching condition. However, if the fertilization could not do at that moment, what should we do? can we store for a couple hours or days?
The storage time for unfertilized ova seems to vary among species and according to storage temperature. For salmonids, ripe ova can be stored for a considerable amount of time in a fridge at 4 degrees C and still fertilize successfully. But, for other species the fertilization rate drops more rapidly over time. I have attached the results of a delayed fertilization experiment that I conducted using walleye