Free Copy of the Proceedings of a Conference on Spiny Lobster Farming Published by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Spiny Lobster Aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific Region is the 162-page proceedings of an international conference held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, on December 9–10, 2008. Click on the link at the end of this page to get a free copy of the proceedings. In addition to papers contributed by leading lobster researchers in the Asia–Pacific region, the proceedings contains 16 papers that report the results of research carried out in a four-year ACIAR lobster aquaculture project involving six agencies from Australia, Vietnam and Indonesia. The papers focus on: Sustainable lobster aquaculture • Improving lobster nursery culture •Lobster growout culture systems • Lobster growout feeds and feeding practices Background In the forward to the proceedings, Nick Austin, Chief Executive Officer at ACIAR, provides some background information

Lobster Harvest leads the world in lobster hatchery technology. It recently embarked on a lobster farming project in Sabah, Malaysia, that will grow hatchery-produced, slipper lobsters in floating sea cages. Its hatchery-produced spiny lobsters will also be tested at the pilot farm. Free Copy of the Proceedings of a Conference on Spiny Lobster Farming: Published by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Spiny Lobster Aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific Region is the 162-page proceedings of an international conference held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, on December 9–10, 2008.In addition to papers contributed by leading lobster researchers in the Asia–Pacific region, the proceedings contains 16 papers that report the results of research carried out in a four-year ACIAR lobster aquaculture project involving six agencies from Australia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Pictures. Summary. Table of Contents. Click Here to Print This Page Click Here to Send This Page to a Friend

Durwood Dugger on Spiny Lobster Farming On February 1, 2007, I interviewed Durwood Dugger, a shrimp farming consultant and one of the pioneers of shrimp farming in the Western Hemisphere. Durwood, 60, has worked on more than 50 shrimp farming projects in the Western Hemisphere and has recently taken a very serious look at the economics of lobster farming. Shrimp News: What are your plans for lobster farming? Durwood Dugger: We've been looking at warmwater spiny lobster farming for several years now. We looked at what I call the Shrimp Farming Development Model and saw that the first real technical leap that we had in shrimp farming was selecting the most naturally adapted species (Penaeus vannamei) for aquaculture production. This critical task has not been accomplished with spiny lobster. Spiny lobster farming is where shrimp farming was in 1965. There are no broadly demonstrated superior species, no commercial hatchery technology and no commercial feed formulations. One of

Ltd., leads the world in lobster hatchery technology. It recently embarked on a lobster farming project in Sabah, East Malaysia, that will grow hatchery-produced, slipper lobsters in floating sea cages. Its hatchery-produced spiny lobsters will also be tested at the pilot farm. Lobster Harvest is an outgrowth of the MG Kailis Group, which pioneered Western Australia’s lobster fishery fifty years ago. Kailis began its lobster hatchery research over ten years ago, and in June 2006, at its research facility in Exmouth, it successfully cultured spiny lobster through the sensitive larval stages and produced spiny lobster juveniles, the first organization in the world to do so. It did it again in 2007 and 2008, and the offspring were grown to adults. In 2007, it created Lobster Harvest, where it remains a major shareholder. The Video: Before you read the rest of this report, I recommend that you watch the six-minute video of Lobster Harvest’s new pilot farm in Sabah, Malaysia. You’

The Netherlands Lobster Three Wageningen University students have set up South Sea Exclusive, a company that specializes in sustainable spiny lobster farming in the Philippines. A number of financial institutions put up $568,000 to get the farm started. South Sea Exclusive’s lobster will hit the market in two years. The firm hopes to be the largest producer of spiny lobsters in Southeast Asian by 2015. Source: Radio Netherlands.nl. Growing sustainable lobsters to save the world. Thijs Westerbeek van Eerten (translated by Radio Netherlands). September 12, 2008. Saudi Arabia A Very Critical Situation? Radhupal (radhupal@yahoo.com): Everyone knows that shrimp farming in the Middle East, mainly Saudi Arabia, is going through a very critical situation. Can anybody throw some light on the issues, problems and solutions of growing shrimp at high temperatures in high salinity waters? Haydar H. Al Sahtout (alsahtout@yahoo.com): Would you please elaborate and clarify. What do you mean

Australian Researchers Close the Life Cycle on the Spiny Lobster, Panulirus ornatus Located on a 207-hectare coastal site in the state of Queensland and surrounded by a national park and marine reserve, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is at the forefront of spiny lobster research. Greg Smith and co-workers at AIMS recently closed the life cycle of the spiny lobster, Panulirus ornatus, which passes through eleven delicate and complex larval stages, beginning with tiny, spider-like larvae about the size of a match head and ending with a puerulus (postlarvae), which resembles an adult lobster, only smaller. Throughout this period, the developing larvae are called “phyllosomas”. In the wild, they are planktonic, reaching a final length of about 30 millimeters. Then they metamorphose into puerulii (postlarvae, still planktonic), followed by the juvenile phase when they settle on the bottom. The metamorphosis from phyllosoma to puerulii is an event as dramatic as the

United States California—Spiny Lobster Moms At the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium (a facility of the City of Los Angeles’ Department of Recreation and Parks), Adrienne McColl (left), a teenage intern volunteer, and Cora Webber (right), a lab assistant, are studying the possibility of farming spiny lobsters. Like other researchers before them, they want to raise California spiny lobsters in captivity. “We were joking that if you could raise a California spiny lobster in captivity you’d be famous,” said Webber. “It’s just plain old fun seeing how far you can get.” No one has ever before reared the locally abundant California spiny lobsters (Panulirus interruptus), also called rock lobsters, from birth through their arduous first year and into adulthood. This is the fourth year Webber has tried to raise spiny lobsters. In the past three years, she’s carefully nursed hundreds of them at a time, only to see them die. She came closest last year when one of the lobsters lived

Shrimp News: What’s the name of the town in Sabah, East Malaysia, where your lobster farm will be located? Rich Jeffers: Semporna. Shrimp News: What species of lobster will you be growing at the farm? Rich Jeffers: Panulirus ornatus, a spiny lobster. Shrimp News: One of first news reports that came out on the project said that in conjunction with the lobster farm there would be a large area dedicated to mussel farming. Will the mussels be used to feed the lobsters? Rich Jeffers: They will be one of the feed components. Shrimp News: Who’s going to develop the lobster hatchery for the project in Malaysia? Rich Jeffers: Darden owns the proprietary science for the development of the hatchery. We will own and operate it. One thing about the project that I would like to stress is that it’s just getting started. We don’t expect to begin harvesting animals until 2017. Another thing that I would like to point out is that we’re not going to stop serving the North American

We used the former Aquaprawns hatchery to produce and sell M. rosenbergii PLs all over the USA and Mexico. Besides working with both freshwater prawns and marine shrimp, we also examined the commercial potential of other species, like spiny lobster (Panulirus argus), shovelnose lobster (Scyllarides nodifer) and about six species of marine ornamental shrimp. CSCI really got moving in late 1979 with a contract from Amfac, a Hawaiian company, and some private investors that were interested in intensive marine shrimp farming. Mike Roegge and I designed and developed a three-phase system for them. It used round tanks with double-inflated covers. Using a meat grinder as a feed extruder and a homemade solar feed dryer, we formulated and made our own experimental intensive shrimp diets based on Dr. L. Benard Colvin’s formulas at the University of Arizona. Our super-intensive production system worked quite well. It was self-cleaning and used very little makeup water. We grew both P. vannamei

Free Copy of the Proceedings of a Conference on Spiny Lobster Farming: Published by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Spiny Lobster Aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific Region is the 162-page proceedings of an international conference held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, on December 9Ð10, 2008. In addition to papers contributed by leading lobster researchers in the AsiaÐPacific region, the proceedings contains 16 papers that report the results of research carried out in a four-year ACIAR lobster aquaculture project involving six agencies from Australia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Pictures. Summary. Table of Contents. Click Here to Print This Page Click Here to Send This Page to a Friend HOME PAGE PREVIOUS PAGE TOP OF PAGE SITE MAP SEARCH SITE