Researchers Find Aquaculture Promising Method to Grow Black Sea Bass

Researchers Find Aquaculture Promising Method to Grow Black Sea Bass

Source: phys.org

2/9/2012

Researchers Find Aquaculture Promising Method to Grow Black Sea Bass

Black sea bass is an important recreational and commercial fishery along the Atlantic coast of the US, but landings have decreased in recent decades as the demand for this tasty fish in seafood and sushi markets has risen. In an attempt to meet that demand, NOAA researchers recently evaluated the potential of black sea bass for commercial aquaculture and found promising results.

After two separate culture trials over a period of four years at the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service lab in Milford, Conn., fisheries biologists found that sea bass can be grown from larvae to adults in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), eating a diet of commercial pellet feeds.