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Aquaculture
America 2005 - Meeting Abstract
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50
BAITFISH RESEARCH VERIFICATION PROGRAM
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Jeremy Trimpey*
and Steeve Pomerleau
Aquaculture/Fisheries Center
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Pine Bluff, AR 71601 USA
jtrimpey@uaex.edu
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The
University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service and
Agricultural Experiment Station have been conducting research
verification trials for major row crops since the 1980's, and
for catfish culture since 1993. The essence of aquaculture
research verification is to provide intensive monitoring of
commercial ponds in which recommended research-based
management protocols are being implemented. The Baitfish
Research Verification Program (BRVP) is a new program
initiated in 2003 in Arkansas. A new interdisciplinary
verification committee consisting of researchers and extension
specialists was formed to develop a revised set of recommended
management practices for commercial juvenile golden shiner
culture based on current research and practical experience.
Three cooperating golden shiner
producers are currently enrolled in the 2004 BRVP. These
producers each have two ponds in the program and have agreed
to manage these ponds based on the following recommendations:
transfer eggs to hatchery, fill ponds with well water, stock
fry between 500,000-1,000,000 fry/ac when pH is below 8.5,
aerate 0.5 hp/ac or more, and feed twice daily between 5-25
lb/ac.
Current harvest data is
illustrated in Table 1, and all production in the verification
program is expected to be completed by fall 2004. At the
completion of the juvenile golden shiner production stage,
commercial yields will be compared to those of research based
yields. Finally, the data will be analyzed to verify the
utility of the Extension recommendations for optimizing the
enterprise's profitability. |
Table 1. Mean (+
standard deviation) production characteristics from 2004
golden shiner baitfish research verification program.
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