High quality eggs and nauplii for the Australian prawn industry.

Funding Activity

Website
https://www.frdc.com.au/project/1995-166

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Objectives:
1. To determine the physiological requirements for successful & high quality egg production: Vitellogenesis and its physiological control.
2. To identify & chronicle the substances which are accumulated during egg development and their importance in egg viability and larvae survival: Egg quality and packaging.
3. Identify & chronicle differences in substances between wild caught spawners and pond reared spawners.
4. Compare egg quality between wild and captive-reared broodstock.
5. Demonstrate value of supplementing broodstock diets with optimal concentrations of carotenoids.
6. Demonstrate value of supplementing broodstock diet with ecdysone.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-12-1995

End Date: 18-06-2003

Funding Scheme: Funding Scheme not available

Funding Amount: $516,346.00

Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

Research Topics

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Other Keywords

Animal Technologies | Aquaculture | Biology | Biotechnology | Husbandry | Life History | Reproduction | Seafood Quality

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