Aquafin CRC - SBT Aquaculture Subprogram: optimisation of farmed Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) nutrition to improve feed conversion efficiency and reduce production costs

Funding Activity

Website
https://www.frdc.com.au/project/2001-249

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Objectives:
1. Improve overall industry feed conversion efficiency with a view to increasing the quantity of tuna produced from the same nutritional inputs.
2. Improve nutritional knowledge to reduce the cost and efficiency of SBT production by enhancing our capacity to control the supply of nutrients to farmed SBT; improving our knowledge of the nutritional requirements of SBT and understanding factors that influence feed intake in SBT.
3. Provide nutrition research support to other tuna research projects.
4. To establish the digestibility of extruded pelleted diets and measure changes in diet digestibility over the tuna season.
5. To establish the effectiveness of formu bait feeding software, for predicting SBT responses to diets, under commercial conditions.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-01-2002

End Date: 28-06-2008

Funding Scheme: Funding Scheme not available

Funding Amount: $995,671.00

Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

Research Topics

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Other Keywords

Aquaculture | Husbandry | Nutrition

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