Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Pioneering aquaculture breeding program

The Tuna life-cycle closure program being conducted by Clean Seas Tuna (CSS) has taken a further step toward completion. Clean Seas Tuna Limited has reached another critical milestone with its pioneering efforts to produce juvenile aquaculture-bred Southern Bluefin Tuna from the Company’s Arno Bay facility on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula.

The Company has announced that the latest stage in the life-cycle research and development program was reached late last week when the first batch of Southern Bluefin Tuna fingerlings was transferred from the onshore Arno Bay nursery tanks to an at-sea cage for controlled grow-out trials.

Some 90 fingerlings now ranging in length from eight centimeters to ten centimeters and weighing up to 15 grams have been transferred to a 25-meter cage offshore. The transfer to sea follows successful weaning of the fingerlings onto a manufactured diet. 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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