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Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-904
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: benefit-cost analysis of marker assisted selection in Australian aquaculture species

This project relates to the research strategies developed by the CRC from projects that have scoped selective breeding for abalone, Yellowtail Kingfish and Barramundi. There is potential that genetic marker assisted selection (MAS) techniques could greatly speed the genetic progress in these...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-725
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: PhD 6.06 – Capturing and maintaining genetic variation when initiating selective breeding programs for aquaculture

Barramundi is naturally a mass spawning species, which can be induced to spawn in captivity under conditions that attempt to replicate the natural environment. The Australian Barramundi industry has on hand a large number of mature broodstock that are currently supplying the grow-out market,...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
Industry
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-903
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: Understanding Yellowtail Kingfish

This broad ranging project took a subproject approach to examine several issues that ultimately relate to product yield and quality attributes of farmed Yellowtail Kingfish (YTK) grown in sea cages. Within this project, the performance (survival and growth) of fish stocked into sea cages was...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University

SCRC: Optimising harvest practices for Yellowtail Kingfish

Project number: 2010-778
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Trent D'Antignana
Organisation: Flinders University
Project start/end date: 30 Jun 2011 - 30 Jun 2013
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Ultimately, the need is to make the production of farmed YTK a profitable enterprise. To this end it is necessary to not only reduce the cost of production by improving harvest efficiencies, it is necessary to improve the consistency and overall quality of the product so as to justify a quality driven increase in the farm gate price of the product. Understanding how harvest husbandry techniques influence flesh quality attributes will allow CST to develop and apply best practice standard operating systems, reduce customer complaints and improve the company’s position in a competitive market.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-9874281-1-0
Author: Trent D'Antignana
Final Report • 2013-05-01 • 1.72 MB
2010-778-DLD.pdf

Summary

Farmed Yellowtail Kingfish (YTK) is considered to be a premium quality fish, ideal for sashimi and sushi, dishes comprised of raw fish. To be acceptable for such delicacies the flesh has to be oily, firm and slightly translucent, with a fine creamy texture and a delicate flavour. The price received, and the reputation of the supplier, are largely dependent on the quality of the product produced. Therefore it is of great interest to optimise the production of high quality fish, especially in the increasingly competitive white fish market.

This project sought to investigate several issues relating to commercial harvest practices for Yellowtail Kingfish, with the aim of modifying any aspect to improve product quality and/or harvesting efficiency. 

Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1994-081
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Experimental production of tetraploid oysters for use as broodstock for commercial hatchery production of triploids

Triploids (3n) are organisms with three sets of chromosomes, while the normal diploid (2n) organisms have only two sets. Over the past two decades, triploids have been studied in more than 20 species of molluscs. The main interests of those studies have primarily focused on their sterility and...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders University
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