The present study is an attempt with an objective to achieve the survival of the male fish even after dissection and surgery is done corroborative to human surgery. Three experiments on males after dissection were stitched with absorbable surgical thread (T1); stitched with normal cotton thread (T2); and (T3) was the control was unstitched. Fishes were successfully operated for removal of testes. Swimming behaviour and feed intake were very normal in T1 and T2 while abnormal and reduced feed intake in T3. The wounds were completely healed on the tenth day and the stitched marks were very faint by the 20th day. | Post-dissection survival conservation and reutilization of clarias Batrachus Linnaeus 1758 male broodstock
