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Development of the aquaculture capability of the brown tiger prawn (Penaeus esculentus)

Project number: 1996-302
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $496,231.00
Principal Investigator: Peter Crocos
Organisation: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Project start/end date: 29 Dec 1996 - 30 May 2001
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. To assess and develop the aquaculture potential of P. esculentus by:
2. Quantifying the growth performance under commercial farm culture conditions.
3. Developing a cost-effective diet for optimal growth.
4. Quantifying the potential for spawning of broodstock without ablation.
5. Closing the life cycle to provide for future selective breeding.

Final report

ISBN: 06343062424
Author: Peter Crocos
Final Report • 2000-05-28 • 3.98 MB
1996-302-DLD.pdf

Summary

In order to provide for future growth of the Australian prawn aquaculture industry, there is a need to take a longer-term strategic view and develop production technology for alternative species that can support an export market but do not have the intense overseas competition of the current major species, P. monodon. This research project addresses the need for feasibility studies on farm production of an additional species that could be profitable in new or existing markets.

The strategic objective is to build on our current information to develop and test techniques for growing P. esculentus in a farm environment, and to quantify the commercial suitability of this species. The project is structured to demonstrate the growout and market potential of the species in pilot trials, to further develop and test an appropriate growout diet, to develop closed life cycle reproduction for future selective breeding and to evaluate the cost benefit of production of P. esculentus. The project commences the development of technology and assesses the potential for P. esculentus to become an additional species for Australian farm production.

Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-035
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of the egg production method to assess the blue grenadier stock in the South East Fishery

The blue grenadier stock is potentially the largest fish stock in the SEF, and following the decline in quota of orange roughy, the need to assess its potential became urgent. The stock has been surveyed using traditional trawl methods and acoustics, but both methods provide only 'snapshot'...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-042
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The direct estimation of age and growth of SBT

This project was developed in response to calls from the SBT Trilateral (now the CCSBT) Scientific Committee for the development and validation of techniques for the direct estimation of age and growth in the species. Since the early 1980’s, the stock assessment methods used by...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Hobart
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