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New water quality monitoring system could help grow aquaculture in Australia

CSIRO’s AquaWatch technology "significantly" helped water quality monitoring needed to support aquaculture growth in the Spencer Gulf region. 

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Use your ‘license to gill’
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Use your ‘license to gill’

Fish is the world’s most traded protein – and a healthy choice that will help feed the world’s growing population into the future. Aquaculture represents the most efficient method by which to convert feed to edible protein, and its use of marine ingredients is being addressed. 

Mechanisms of shrimp coloration
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Mechanisms of shrimp coloration

Color can impact the price of shrimp, with dark red preferred in some markets. Research using colorimeters to quantify color in raw and cooked shrimp found that although shrimp raised on white or black substrates exhibited different coloration, total carotenoid levels were the same in all the animals.