Research in Marine Aquaculture at the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Miami
- 1 October 1969
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 98 (4) , 738-742
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1969)98[738:rimaat]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Within very recent times there has been an increase in attention paid to the possibility of culturing commercially valuable marine animals. The Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Miami has embarked on a research program to show feasibility of culturing shrimp and pompano. The basic initial assumption of the program is that profit must be the underlying stimulus for research and development of a new industry hence the concentration of effort on animals of high market value. A second assumption is that such culture, to be truly successful, must be intensive in character and divorced from the changeable marine environment where man is unable to control the host of limiting factors. The life history of the pink shrimp, Penaeus duorarum, and biological data on pompano, Trachinotus carolinus are briefly outlined. The research facility which consists of 7 elevated growing ponds, 16 20 ton capacity hatchery tanks and a hatchery‐laboratory building is described. A brief discussion of limiting factors indicates that dependence on wild stocks for the supply of eggs or young, in the case of shrimp and pompano respectively, is a major obstacle to development of an industry. Another, of equal importance, is lack of suitable inexpensive but nutritious food. A third is our general ignorance of disease organisms and their control. Research to overcome these difficiencies is now being undertaken. The research is being supported by private industry and the National Science Foundation through the Sea Grant program.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: