Fisheries Research Contract Report
Previous studies have shown that large numbers, potentially of commercial quantities, of pueruli and post-pueruli can be harvested from Western Australian waters. At this stage, this appears to be unique in Australia. The same research concluded that harvesting of post-pueruli was likely to have lit...
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2009
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| author | Melville Smith, R. Johnston, D. Maguire, G. Phillips, Bruce |
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| description | Previous studies have shown that large numbers, potentially of commercial quantities, of pueruli and post-pueruli can be harvested from Western Australian waters. At this stage, this appears to be unique in Australia. The same research concluded that harvesting of post-pueruli was likely to have little impact on the commercial fishery and that there could be ways to make post-pueruli removal biologically neutral. There is commercial interest in ongrowing western rock lobster post-pueruli to a marketable size, but basic data on growth and survival under a range of culture conditions was lacking. This project provides much of the essential biological information (growth rates, survival, feed consumption, food conversion, health) under a range of culture variables (flow rates, density, shelter, temperature, feed frequency) to assist potential investors in assessing the economic potential of western rock lobster growout. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-82372017-01-30T11:05:21Z Fisheries Research Contract Report Melville Smith, R. Johnston, D. Maguire, G. Phillips, Bruce western rock lobster diet shelter density Pueruli post-pueruli fatty acid feeding frequency lipid survival Panulirus cygnus growth temperature Previous studies have shown that large numbers, potentially of commercial quantities, of pueruli and post-pueruli can be harvested from Western Australian waters. At this stage, this appears to be unique in Australia. The same research concluded that harvesting of post-pueruli was likely to have little impact on the commercial fishery and that there could be ways to make post-pueruli removal biologically neutral. There is commercial interest in ongrowing western rock lobster post-pueruli to a marketable size, but basic data on growth and survival under a range of culture conditions was lacking. This project provides much of the essential biological information (growth rates, survival, feed consumption, food conversion, health) under a range of culture variables (flow rates, density, shelter, temperature, feed frequency) to assist potential investors in assessing the economic potential of western rock lobster growout. 2009 Book http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8237 Department of Fisheries fulltext |
| spellingShingle | western rock lobster diet shelter density Pueruli post-pueruli fatty acid feeding frequency lipid survival Panulirus cygnus growth temperature Melville Smith, R. Johnston, D. Maguire, G. Phillips, Bruce Fisheries Research Contract Report |
| title | Fisheries Research Contract Report |
| title_full | Fisheries Research Contract Report |
| title_fullStr | Fisheries Research Contract Report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fisheries Research Contract Report |
| title_short | Fisheries Research Contract Report |
| title_sort | fisheries research contract report |
| topic | western rock lobster diet shelter density Pueruli post-pueruli fatty acid feeding frequency lipid survival Panulirus cygnus growth temperature |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8237 |