SARDI Pool Farm
A new $1.2 million experimental pool farm at SARDI Aquatic Sciences base at West Beach will help develop SA’s aquaculture sector – a major focus of the MISA initiative.
The farm provides excellent facilities for research focussed on feed development, nutrition, product quality and husbandry, and is available to MISA partners, including the aquaculture industry.
The infrastructure is comparable to the best in Australia for tank-based research targeted at temperate water and freshwater fish, crustacean and mollusc species. It comprises 80 tanks of varying sizes allowing experiments to be reproduced in a larger number of tank environments, thereby providing more conclusive results.
A number of experiments have already been conducted since the farm opened in June 2006.
They range from examining the winter dietary requirements of yellowtail kingfish to looking at ways of increasing omega 3 fatty acids in fish, and how dietary oxidised products and antioxidants interact to influence the quality of fish flesh.