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PROJECT NUMBER • 1978-025
PROJECT STATUS:
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Pond culture of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) larvae in Tasmania

The three experiments conducted to spawn and grow C. Gigas were only partly successful, with total mortality of larvae occuring in 14 days: spawning and larvae growth to this period being successful on each occasion. Further experiments in an attempt to determine the reason for failure using the...
ORGANISATION:
Cameron of Tasmania Pty Ltd
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2010-724
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

SCRC: PhD 6.06 Development of tools for the sustainable management of genetics in polyploid Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea gigas) (Assoc Prof Anthony Koutoulis; Student Penny Miller)

The commercial production of triploid Pacific Oysters (Crassostrea gigas) has grown rapidly in recent years. There is now a push to move away from commonly used mass spawning techniques towards single pair cross selective breeding programs in an effort to improve growth and disease resistance within...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
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PROJECT NUMBER • 2008-772
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Seafood CRC: Education and training exchange program with NOFIMA, a world leading aquaculture research institute

A number of businesses have recently been established in Australia with a primary focus on genetic improvement and the sale of genetically improved stock for aquaculture. The production of selectively bred stock has been shown to have high benefit-cost, even for relatively small aquaculture...
ORGANISATION:
Flinders Partners Pty Ltd
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1984-011
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

The production of larval native fish in larval rearing ponds

Most marine and freshwater fishes depend on plankton for food during a period shortly after birth until they are large enough to switch to other prey. At the Inland Fisheries Research Station, Narrandera (NIFRS), native fish are spawned and the larvae transferred to rearing ponds for approximately...
ORGANISATION:
University of Adelaide
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1983-038
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Development of barramundi (Lates calcarifer bloch) hatchery and farming techniques in Australia

The central aims of this project were to identify major practical constraints to the development of a commercially viable barramundi hatchery and farming enterprise in Northern Australia and to demonstrate that hatchery rearing of barramundi constituted a feasible alternative to the importation of...
ORGANISATION:
Sea Hatcheries Ltd
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