The three procedures are (1) the traditional hand-stripping method, considered to be time-consuming and laborious; (2) Caesarean section, a relatively quick surgical method of extracting eggs through a 4 inches abdominal incision; considered faster than hand stripping, suturing can be time-consuming and the incision may result in muscular stress and poor suture retention which lowers survival rate; and (3) MIST, (minimally invasive surgical technique) which is the fastest of the three procedures because it requires less handling of the fish and eliminates the need for suturing.