Low-head recirculating aquaculture system for juvenile red drum production

• Other Authors: Pfeiffer, Timothy J., Wills, Paul S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Virginia Tech
• Subjects: Red drum; Aquaculture; Fish hatcheries > Design and construction; Low Head
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007459; https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A33099/datastream/TN/view/Low-head%20recirculating%20aquaculture%20system%20for%20juvenile%20red%20drum%20production.jpg

The USDA Agricultural Research Service and the Center for Aquaculture and Stock Enhancement at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute-FAU (HBOI-FAU) are collaborating to evaluate low-head recirculating aquaculture system designs to intensively produce red drum juveniles as part of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) saltwater hatchery network initiative. The design and performance data collected from these systems, as well as systems being evaluated at Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL, and the FWC Saltwater Experimental Research Facility, Port Manatee, FL will be utilized to design the recirculating aquaculture systems that FWC plans in the new hatcheries throughout the state of Florida. The design of the phase I (25mm to 45 mm SL juvenile) through phase II (60 mm to 100 mm SL juvenile) production recirculating aquaculture systems include a nine-tank system and a ten-tank system. For the phase II to phase III (>130 mm SL juvenile) production cycle, the larger red drum juveniles are cultured in replicated larger 4-tank RAS low-head systems. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 1716 This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Pfeiffer, T., & Wills, P. (2008). Low-head recirculating aquaculture system for juvenile red drum production. In T. T. Rakestraw, L. S. Douglas, L. Marsh, L. Granatta, & G. J. Flick (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture, July 25-27, 2008 (pp. 137-145). Roanoke, Virginia: Virginia Tech.