Aquaculture of Spinibarbus denticulatus (Oshima, 1926), a ¢sh species indigenous to North Vietnam and Eastern China, is constrained by lack of ¢ngerlings for stocking ponds and cages. As these ¢sh do not naturally breed in captivity, carp pituitary extract (CPE), luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analogue (LHRHa) with domperidone (DOM) and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) were administered at various doses to induce ovulation. A ¢rst set of experiments evaluated the response to LHRHa (30, 40 and 50 mg kg À1 ) with or without DOM (10 mg kg À1 ), CPE (20, 30 and 40 mg kg À1 ) and HCG (3000, 4000 and 5000 IU kg À1 ). A second set of experiments evaluated the dose response to LHRHa (30, 35, 40 and 50 mg kg À1 ) primed with 6 mg kg À1 of CPE, and HCG (3000, 3500, 4000, 5000 IU kg À1 ) primed with 6 mg kg À1 of CPE. The treatment groups were compared with each other and the control (injected with 0.9% saline solution). Only 25% and 50% ovulation resulted when treated with LHRHa at 40 and 50 mg kg À1 , whereas 100% ovulation was achieved with an addition of DOM to LHRHa. Both 30 and 40 mg kg À1 CPE induced 100% ovulation. However, HCG (4000 and 5000 IU kg À1 ) induced ovulation in only 33% of females.When primed with CPE, the minimum dose of LHRHa required was 35 mg kg À1 to achieve 70% ovulation. Priming HCG with CPE also resulted in 100% ovulation, and the minimum e¡ective dose of HCG to induce ovulation was 3500 IU kg À1 with 60% ovulation. Fertilization and hatch rates observed in this study with di¡erent hormonal stimulation were high (80^93%). The results indicate that while the use of combined hormone strategy has no apparent advantage over a single hormone strategy, LHRHa1DOM (40 mg kg À1 110.0 mg kg À1 ) and CPE (30 mg kg À1 ) are most e¡ective in consistently inducing ovulation and thus can be used for commercial hatchery production of S. denticulatus larvae.