We are currently running the largest research trial ever conducted in Singapore on saline tilapia, also known as Mozambique tilapia or Straits Fish or O. mossambicus 🐟. Our team at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory started by individually measuring half a ton of fish and is now working to pinpoint the "sweet spots" where seawater farm productivity can be enhanced without compromising animal welfare. This trial is designed to optimize farming and husbandry protocols for local farmers, paving the way for more sustainable and efficient aquaculture practices in the region. #Aquaculture #SustainableFarming #Tilapia #SeawaterRAS #StraitsFish #Innovation #Singapore Weiqiang Chung Jessalin N.
Great work. But as mentioned above why work on making a highly invasive species even more invasive? Especially when there are plenty of local marine and brackish water species available locally to work with.
Good luck with this, Richard. It is unfortunate that mossambicus escapees are present in brackish water ecosystems around the world. I wonder if development of local fish for aquaculture could be more "sustainable" than using an exotic species, even though the exotic is easily cultured. I have experienced the opposition to tilapia aquaculture in my local area, justified or not. Yet, other fish species might be domesticated as a source of high quality protein with less potential for shifting local species diversity if the fish escape.
Interesting work Richard. I have information regarding the bespoke physiological demands of supporting electrolyte flux in tilapia. I did research in the early 1990s on tilapia (O. spilurus) adaptation to saline conditions and development of suitable diets for maintaining gut integrity in terms of tight junction and membrane electrical potential pd! We must chat!
You can search results from our research activities on molobicus strain developed jointly with with Cirad, INRAE and BFAR NFDC in the Philippines By the mean time I will contact you the following month for a research program on sustainable aquaculture in the ASEAN and hope will be able to find synergy with activities in Singapour
It's interesting point to search I participated in breeding and culture of O. Spilurus in red sea water And I already cultured O. Spilurus in saline water 5 PPT In red sea water and in 5 PPT water With specific formula gives nutritional requirements helps fish handling stress of osmotic regulations We get very good percent in females ready to spawn But We faced low percent in hatching and low percent in fast grower fingerlings So we thinking to start evaluating fertility ability of male in the equation to improve hatchability We still try Hope all success for you with o. Mossambicus
Congratulations, Richard! Individually measuring and monitoring half a ton of fish sounds like a monumental effort—impressive work by the team! If you're looking for a way to centralize and analyze all that data more efficiently, our software, LXA_FishLab (https://www.luxaqua.tech/fishlab/), might be a great fit. It’s designed to streamline data management for projects just like yours. Wishing you continued success with this exciting trial!
impresive by the way
Mark Dimzon
1d
Awesome work Richard!
Richard Page
2w
Well done
Leading Aquaculture Researcher and Business Leader at Pontus Group
2wIs there an opportunity to look at targeted feeds for these, as presumably their needs will be different with different osmotic and energetic conditions?