Turning invasive copi into live feed for yellow perch 
US Source: The Fish Site 9/1/2022
Turning invasive copi into live feed for yellow perch
Credit: Russel Bailey
Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU) are designing ways to use invasive copi as larval feed for farmed yellow perch.
 

Karolina Kwasek and Michal Wojno are trying to find better ways to hatch and successfully raise yellow perch to the juvenile stage in aquaculture. They are using research methods that combine low-tech hatchery equipment, easily copied by professional fish farmers, with creating a new feed that uses the invasive species copi as a protein source.

 
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