Lobster industry shake-up predicted after Tasmanians find ‘holy grail’ of aquaculture
Researchers are claiming a world-first aquaculture breakthrough in Tasmania that could reshape the rock lobster industry.
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CrazyNeutrino said:
Lobster industry shake-up predicted after Tasmanians find ‘holy grail’ of aquacultureResearchers are claiming a world-first aquaculture breakthrough in Tasmania that could reshape the rock lobster industry.
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Hobart’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies has developed a hatchery process that until now, has been impossible, due to the lobster’s complex larval cycle. Since the 1980s, people have been able to rear very small numbers of rock lobsters, but it’s been on the scale of being able to do it in a beaker, and using various things like antibiotics. The breakthroughs that we’ve made are around water treatments, we don’t use any antibiotics at all. The last larval stage, called the metamorphosis, that was the most challenging part of the breeding process. During that stage, they go from essentially a two-dimensional animal into something that actually looks like a lobster.
A lobster lover, I mean larva:
According to an article in Nature, spiny lobsters go through 18 larval stages over 2 years. It’s the last metamorphosis between stages 17 and 18 that’s been the problem in rearing rock lobsters.
mollwollfumble said:
A lobster lover, I mean larva:
cool picture