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WORKING PAPERS - BOBP/WP/52 Experimental Culture Of Seaweeds In Penang, Malaysiaby |
Executing Agency: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Funding Agency: SWEDISH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Development of Small-Scale Fisheries in the Bay of Bengal. Madras, India, August 1987 |
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This paper reports on a one-year pilot project for seaweed culture centered at the Fisheries Research Institute at Glugor (GFRI) in Penang, Malaysia. The work was undertaken during a 12-month period in 1983-84. Following discussions between the Malaysian Department of Fisheries and the BOBP, an experimental seaweed culture project was decided on in 1982 with the following limited objectives: - to determine whether and which species of
seaweed of the genus Grad/aria could be cultured The project’s long term objective was to establish an ongoing agarophyte seaweed production industry as an alternative means of employment for inshore fishermen of Malaysia. Implementation of the project on behalf of BOBP was entrusted to ARDP (Agronomic Research, Development and Production Inc., Honolulu, Hawii). The ARDP made available an expert consultant, Jack Fisher; while research facilities, staff and other counterpart support were extended by the Fisheries Research Institute, Glugor, Penang. (The staff included Ms. Faazas Latif, Mr. Sulkhifli Talik, Mr. Chan Seng Mei and Mr. Samad Mohamad). The small-scale fisheries project of the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) provided a part of the funds, and also monitored and reviewed the projec’ This paper discusses project rationale and effort on seaweed culture sites and species farm production technologies, the methods and materials used, the conduct of seaweed farming experiments and their results. |
1. BACKGROUND
1.1 Potential culture area
1.2 Species and their agar quality
1.3 Farmability of Penang “Gracilaria” species
1.4 Production technologies
2. METHODS AND MATERIALS
2.1 Spore collection
2.2 Experimental farm development and testing
2.3 Installation
2.4 Growout monitoring
2.5 Maintenance
2.6 Harvesting
2.7 Post-harvest treatment
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
3.1 Hatchery spore collection and growout
3.2 In-field spore setting and growout
3.3 The “best value” approach
4. SUMMARY
5. RECOMMENDATIONS
6. LITERATURE CITED