The Oceanographic Research Institute (IOI) of Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (UABC), Campus Ensenada, delivered 150 million rotifers to a private company for their use in commercial cultivation of yellowtail kingfish.
The aim of the UABC’s Marine Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Cultivation research laboratory is to transfer technology to the commercial production of fish, the UABC said in a statement.
The company that received the rotifers is Ocean Baja Labs, a new company which is about to start commercial farming activities of yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi). UABC's commitment has been to cover the immediate need of 50 million organisms the company required to start its farming.
In a second step, the production schemes t...
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