Aquafeeds
Commercial microbial biomass additive evaluated in black tiger shrimp diets
Initial insights on the effects of the commercial marine microbial biomass Novacq as an additive in feeds for black tiger shrimp postlarvae and juveniles.
Innovation & Investment
Collaboration drives innovations in super-intensive indoor shrimp farming
A collaboration between Viet-Uc Seafood Corporation and CSIRO of Australia develops improvements in super-intensive indoor shrimp farming technology.
Health & Welfare
Turning the tide against a deadly oyster virus
This article from Australia’s CSIRO details the "race" to breed oysters genetically predisposed to resist Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS), a disease that is harmless to humans but so lethal to oysters that it can kill more than 90 percent of a crop of millions of animals within days.
Intelligence
Use your ‘license to gill’
Fish is the world’s most traded protein – and a healthy choice that will help feed the world’s growing population into the future. Aquaculture represents the most efficient method by which to convert feed to edible protein, and its use of marine ingredients is being addressed.
Intelligence
Mechanisms of shrimp coloration
Color can impact the price of shrimp, with dark red preferred in some markets. Research using colorimeters to quantify color in raw and cooked shrimp found that although shrimp raised on white or black substrates exhibited different coloration, total carotenoid levels were the same in all the animals.
Health & Welfare
Pacific oyster selective breeding in Australia
A partnership between CSIRO and the Australian seafood industry has significantly improved the selective breeding of Australian Pacific oysters.
Innovation & Investment
Cooperation grows Australian aquaculture
Expansion of the Bribie Island Research Centre allows agencies to tackle multidisciplinary research tasks to help the Australian aquaculture industry.
Health & Welfare
CSIRO research evaluates technologies to produce genetically protected, all-female shrimp
In Australia, CSIRO is investigating techniques to produce reproductively sterile, all-female shrimp populations through polyploidy, irradiation, or genetic engineering.
Intelligence
Australian farmers diversify with local shrimp species
Australia has a diverse and abundant fauna of local shrimp but only P. monodon, P. japonicus and P. merguiensis are farmed there.
Aquafeeds
Shrimp feed management in Australia
A shrimp feed management survey indicated that Australian farmers placed a high importance on better estimations of feed demand in improving FCR.