Abalone Aquaculture Subprogram: formulated feeds for newly settled juvenile abalone based on natural feeds (diatoms and crustose coralline algae)

Funding Activity

Website
https://www.frdc.com.au/project/1996-386

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Objectives:
1. Use information on the nutritional and attractant factors present in natural food items to develop a variety of recipes for formulated feeds for very young juvenile abalone («15 mm)
2. Manufacture and evaluate the feeds for water stability and palatability for the different feed delivery mechanisms including gels, pellets, pastes, adhesion feeds (on plates) and others.
3. Produce formulated diets of high nutritional value which produce high growth rates in very young abalone (<15mm), as verified by growth rate trials.
4. Provide information to the groups in the FRDC subprogram involved in the formulated feed development, so as to improve the existing formulated feed used for the "grow out" phase (15mm+)
5. Identify the nutrients incorporated into the actively growing tissues of abalone fed diatoms by assessing fatty acid metabolism and carbon and nitrogen retention in juvenile abalone using stable isotopes

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-08-1996

End Date: 28-09-2002

Funding Scheme: Funding Scheme not available

Funding Amount: $159,386.00

Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

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Other Keywords

Aquaculture | Biology | Food technology | Husbandry | Laboratory Procedures | Nutrition | Physiology | Population Dynamics | Water quality

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