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.