Research Requirements for sablefish Anoplopoma fimbria

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Research Requirements for sablefish (Anoplopoma
fimbria)

• Marine Finfish Commercialisation Forum
• St. Johns February 2004
• Craig Clarke
• Aquaculture DivisionDepartment of Fisheries and
  Oceans,
• Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6N7
  

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Husbandry in early development (Yolksac,
start-feeding metamorphosis)

• salinity tolerance
• temperature ranges for optimal development
• optimal light intensities for rearing
• cause of deformities
• optimal stocking densities

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Nutrition

• Live food (rotifer Artemia) enrichments
• Live food replacement diets, weaning diets
• Grower diets for different stanzas
• Diets for fish larger than 2 kg
• Finishing diets
• Broodstock diets

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Health

• ontogeny of immune response
• vaccination
• drug clearance times

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Reproduction

• Markers for ovarian recrudescence (e.g., ELISA
  for vitellogenin)
• Sex determination mechanism
• Production of all-female stocks

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Grow out(contributed by Gidon Minkoff)

• optimum grow-out conditions
• diets for different growth stanzas
• development of finishing diets
• environmental impacts of cage culture
• product quality, shelf life
• market potential