Overview
This project aimed to improve the sustainability of a large and well developed, but low technology, ornate spiny lobster grow-out industry in Vietnam, and to address the knowledge gap that is limiting the establishment of a P. ornatus grow-out industry in Australia.
With most capture lobster fisheries either fully or more often over-exploited, and in decline, aquaculture appears to be the only long-term way of meeting the insatiable market demand for lobster.
Project outcomes
- Assessed the ecological impact of lobster seed collection in Vietnam.
- Reduced post-capture losses of lobster pueruli.
- Developed husbandry best-practices for lobster grow-out.
Key partners
Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
CSIRO Marine Research
Directorate General Aquaculture
Research Institute for Aquaculture No. 3
Institute of Oceanography
University of Fisheries
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Final report FIS/2001/058
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