Artificial upwelling progress, 1976-1977

Final report for work supported by NOAA, Sea Grant Project 04-6-158-44117. A pilot-stage, two-trophic-level, deep-sea water mariculture system was operated on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands over a nine-month period. Antarctic Intermediate Water from about 870 m depth was pumped continuously into two...

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Main Authors: Laurence, Scott, Roels, Oswald A.
Other Authors: Port Aransas Marine Laboratory, National Sea Grant Program (U.S.)
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: 1978
Subjects:
Mariculture > United States Virgin Islands > Saint Croix
Upwelling (Oceanography) > United States Virgin Islands > Saint Croix
Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/43931
https://doi.org/10.15781/T2GF0N036
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Summary:Final report for work supported by NOAA, Sea Grant Project 04-6-158-44117. A pilot-stage, two-trophic-level, deep-sea water mariculture system was operated on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands over a nine-month period. Antarctic Intermediate Water from about 870 m depth was pumped continuously into two 50,000-liter onshore pools. The pools were inoculated with laboratory grown cultures of the diatom Chaetoceros curvisetus (STX-167) and operated at a turnover rate of 1.15 day-1. Twenty-nine (29) such cultures were started and lasted an average of 17.0 days each. Mean down-time required for deactivation and restarting of cultures was 54 hours. National Sea Grant Program (U.S.) Marine Science

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