“…These findings corroborate the results of other studies (Kestemont, Rinchard, Damoiseau, & Tans, 2001;Maddams & McCormick, 2012), while they are not consistent with some other evidences (Chattopadhyay, 2017;Heins et al, 2004). The possible reasons for these non-significant results could be using almost the equal-sized females (Beldade et al, 2012;Benton, St Clair, & Plaistow, 2008), applying same induced breeding technique (Das et al, 2016;Szabó, Urbányi, Müller, Szabó, & Horváth, 2019), providing less stress (Contreras-Sánchez et al, 1998;Mylonas, Fostier, & Zanuy, 2010) and feeding with optimum diet (Izquierdo, Fernández-Palacios, & Tacon, 2001;Rahman, Rahman, Hossain, Yeasmin, & Asif, 2016), etc.…”