The objective of this research travel grant was to develop Australian Seafood CRC PhD student Shan He's professional knowledge of transferring laboratory-scale results to a pre-commercial food model for industry benefit, and also build his professional skills and industry experience. After one and...

This project was initiated based on recommendations and R&D priorities as identified at the First Hatchery Feeds Workshop (Cairns, QLD 1999). Several aspects were found to have high priority, such as: systems, Artemia availability and its nutritional quality, microdiets to reduce and/or replace...

Female penaeid prawns grow faster and may have higher feed conversion efficiency than do males. If a technique could be devised to bias the sex ratio of larvae produced so that the proportion of females in each brood outnumbered the males, the commercial grower could achieve dramatically...