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Finding a Sustainable Feed Alternative for the Farming of Cobia (Rachycentron canadum) at the Cape Eleuthera Institute

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ABSTRACT:

Students: Colin Braun, Hayley Brown, Randi Brown, Cooper FitzGerald, Walcott Miller, Krissy Taft, Christiana Whitcomb Advisors: Charles Carey, Andrew Field, Amanda Lilleston. Aquaculture raises many issues that have required extensive research to overcome. Among these is the use of fishmeal and fish oil from wild fish to produce commercial feed. Scientists predict a collapse of all species of wild seafood by the year 2050, and consequently aquaculture must be a sustainable industry to make up for this consequential loss (Turchini et al. 2009). The hypothesis investigated by this CEI aquaculture team was: if juvenile Cobia are fed with, Tilapia raised in an aquaponics system, then the final weights and lengths will have no significant difference to those of juvenile cobia fed commercial feed, and the FCR’s will be similar. The research was conducted with the purpose of making a sustainable aquaculture system, proving to the global aquaculture industry that carnivorous fish can be farmed with alternative sustainable feed.

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Year: 2009

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