First captive breeding program for scampi

摘要

A small scampi named Camilla, who celebrated her first birthday this past summer, is the first of her kind to be raised in a lab. This gave scientists at the Cawthron Institute in New Zealandcause to celebrate as they move closer to establishing a scampi aquaculture sector."The project is only two years old, but what we've learned about the scampi in terms of husbandry and behaviour issignificant,'' Cawthron aquaculture development specialist Kevin Heasman says.