Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Clean Seas tuna eyes breeding success at Arno Bay

CLEAN Seas is confident this year's breeding program at Arno Bay will produce commercial quantities of tuna. Clean Seas managing director Clifford Ashby said an intense research and development effort provided confidence that it was getting close to rearing adult tuna in commercial quantities.

"There's a definate air of optimism and confidence among the group, but we are effectively in a research and development phase," Mr Ashby said. "Spawning started late last week and has continued every day since with good numbers and viability of eggs." Mr Ashby said some of the best fish breeding intelligence in the world is going into the breeding program.

Four separate research teams on site include Japan's world-leading Kinki University, the SA Research and Development Institute, a University of Tasmania post-graduate student and a Clean Seas team, separate to its commercial team. Clean Sea tuna larvae is also being grown-out at the Darwin Aquaculture Centre in the Northern Territory and at Port Stephens by the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries.

"The next hurdle is to get the fingerlings through the early feeding stages and then put them out to sea after about 60 days for controlled grow-out trials," he said. Read more...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.

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