Current Research
Overview |
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Establish essential
information pertinent to sustaining the rockfish fishery as a
sustainable food resource and provide information on environmental
conditions required for any future operations to culture rockfish
for food resource and replenishment programs. In addition to
assessing the optimal conditions for rockfish rearing, the project
is evaluating the potential impact of anthropogenic pollutants known
to be introduced into the marine environment in industrial, urban
and agricultural effluents and the effects of hypoxic conditions on
the reproductive potential of nearshore rockfish. The viviparous
nature of rockfish reproduction may make this species particularly
susceptible to the adverse effects of endocrine disruptors in the
environment and this research may help to establish rockfish as a
sentinel species for monitoring the health of marine ecosystems in
coastal waters. |
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Sustainable mariculture, fisheries and coral restoration |
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This area of research is focused on the development of
sustainable mariculture operations using the latest knowledge of
fish physiology in combination with the utilization of novel
technologies in order to decrease pressures on threatened marine
environments while improving the capacities of local communities
throughout SE Asia to increase production and improve livelihoods
while meeting the ever-increasing demands for seafood and marine
organisms for the aquarium trade. |
