Banking on barnacle:Planktonic reveals source of mystery marine live feed

摘要

The previously secret species behind the development of a new live feed for use in marine hatcheries was finally revealed at a major innovation conference in London as none other than the humble barnacle. That's the mystery item on which Norway's Planktonic AS is basing its production of cryopreserved nauplii, creating a live marine hatchery feed alternative to rotifers or artemia."We were looking for a marine zooplankton which could be successfully cryopreserved, giving producers a new feed source which they could bring back to full life for use within a hatchery environment," Rune Husby, CEO of Planktonic, told Hatchery Internationalduring the Aquaculture Innovation 2018 conference in London.