We collected nine male gonad developmental stages covering 18 dah (day after hatching), 22 dah, 26 dah, 30 dah, 35 dah, 40 dah, 47 dah, 58 dah and 70 dah. And we also collected female gonad samples as the same as male sample. All of 18 samples were sequenced using the Illumina HiSeq platform to generate 18 short reads dataset.