Improving pikeperch larviculture by combining environmental, feeding and populational factors

•A multifactorial protocol provided the best combination of factors to rear pikeperch larvae in a Recirculating Aquaculture System.•This best combination ensured an acceptable growth (15.1 %/day), and a final biomass of 13.6 kg.m-3.•At 53 days post-hatching, this combination leads to a survival rate of 16.9% and to 92.6% of swim bladder inflation.