Overview
This project aimed to provide a sustainable basis for the further development of a mariculture sector in PNG and to further build capacity within country partner organisations and coastal communities to support this development.
Outputs from this project have had regional uptake and impacts. For example, NIMRF staff participated in the SPC Regional Exchange on Sandfish Aquaculture where they disseminated project-developed sandfish culture procedures, particularly relating to the use of micro-algae as a larval food source. NIMRF staff have also been engaged directly Final report: Improving technical and institutional capacity to support development of mariculture based livelihoods and industry in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea by SPC to train private sector aquaculture practitioners from the region. There has been broad international uptake of the use of micro-algae concentrates as a hatchery food source for a variety of species.
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