Reproduction and Selective Breeding of Pacific Threadfin
Location | Funding | Institution | Principal Investigator(s) |
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Hawaii | $100,000 | Oceanic Institute | C. Laidley |
Support efforts to develop a self-sustaining marine food fish aquaculture industry in Hawaii and ultimately, the Pacific region, by providing the technologies necessary to improve the genetic and overall reproductive management of Pacific threadfin broodstock.
- Complete methods development for pair spawning of Pacific threadfin for application to the genetic selection efforts.
- Establish and maintain domesticated and selected Pacific threadfin broodstock lines.
- Conduct controlled spawning of select broodstock lines to generate select seedstock for growth performance evaluation.
- To complete life cycle of growth-selected and control lines of Pacific threadfin and determine direct effects of selection on growth performance, and indirect effects on survival, reproductive development, and generation time.
- Gain estimate of heritability for growth and indirect effects on survival, dressing percentage, and reproduction in Pacific threadfin.
- Initiate research on water reuse technology to protect selected broodstock lines from pathogenic exposure and to decrease on-site water consumption.
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