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Project Challenges and Work packages

Project Challenges

Developing embryos from a benthic spawning coral
reef fish species

At present, key bottlenecks hampering the advancement of culture techniques for coral reef fish include the provision of suitably sized, nutritious and abundant larval diets, as well as the establishment of optimal rearing environments that promote growth and survival through key life stages. 

Work Packages

  • Management and reporting
  • Facility establishment
  • Optimisation of live prey culture
  • Design of egg collection technology
  • Collection of pelagic and benthic eggs from public aquariums
  • Spawning of animals held at CAMS 
  • Assessment of live foods for larval fish
  • Design and assessment of larval rearing tank systems
  • Project marketing, promotion and information dissemination
  • Scoping of commercialisation opportunities