Abstract:From December, 2000 to October, 2001, 114 specimens of adult Pelteobagrus vachelli, with body weight of 47.60~165.30g, were collected in 5 periods, winter, spring, spawning, post-spawning and autumn, in lower reach of the Jialing River where the reservoir of the Three Gorges Project will inundate. For each period, the samples were divided according to sex for analysis, i.e. 10 males and 10 females for winter, spring, post-spawning and autumn and 20 males and 14 females for spawning. In the 10 sample groups ...