US AND CARIBBEAN farmers have started ongrowing juvenile cobia (Rachycentron canadum) and mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis) supplied by pioneering hatchery Aquaculture Center of the Florida Keys Inc (ACFK).
ACFK's first-phase broodstock facility and hatchery in Marathon is designed to produce 800,000 fingerlings a year in eight cycles. Most are ongrown either offshore in cages or onshore in tanks.
Norway's Marine Farms ASA, which manages and partly owns ACFK, believes much of aquaculture's future growth will be in marine farming, and plans to farm cobia and other warmwater marine fish in the north of Belize.
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