Health & Welfare
Advances in fish hatchery management
Advances in fish hatchery management – particularly in the areas of brood management and induced spawning – have helped establish aquaculture for multiple species.
Health & Welfare
Egg saprolegniasis in a commercial sunshine bass hatchery
Fungal growth on the eggs caused by the water mold Saprolegnia spp. is an obstacle to the larval production of sunshine bass. This study confirmed that copper sulfate can be an economical and valuable resource in hatchery management for the control of saprolegniasis on sunshine bass eggs in McDonald jars.
Intelligence
Research yields improvements in oyster hatchery management
A project between an oyster hatchery and a university is working on a selective-breeding program for silver- or gold-lip pearl oysters in Indonesia.