Project Number: 5320-31000-006-00
Project Type: Appropriated

Start Date: Sep 13, 2001
End Date: Apr 30, 2005

Objective:
To advance the nutritional, environmental, and economic effectiveness of U.S. aquaculture feed which is essential to the expansion of marine aquaculture in the United States for improving feeds technology and management for the intensive culture of Litopenaeus vannamei, in high yield, cost competitive and environmentally sound domestic production system.

Approach:
Establish the dietary requirements for key nutritional components and energy relationships necessary to maximinze growth and feed utilization of a population of high health, genetically improved L. vannamei. Determine effects of feed composition on the production, intake and utilization of microbial nutritional factors by shrimp and release of waste products into the culture system, and develop feed formulations that exploit these effects to improve shrimp production and maintain pond stability. Develop feeds and ingredient processing, ingredient characterization, feeds and ponds management, and statistical, economic, and production models. Formerly 5320-31000-005-00D (8/01).

Project Team

Gonsalves, Dennis

Project Annual Reports

FY 2003   FY 2002

Related National Programs

Aquaculture (106)

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