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The mass cultivation of Ecklonia stolonifera Okamura as a summer feed for the abalone industry in Korea

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The mass cultivation of Ecklonia stolonifera Okamura was studied as a possible summer feed for the abalone industry in Korea for the period between August and November when Undaria and Laminaria are not available. Experiments were conducted to investigate the optimal conditions for artificial seed production and mass cultivation of this species. Seedlings of E. stolonifera were reared in an indoor tank for 60 days until they were around 500 μm in length. Following indoor tank culture, the seedlings were transferred in situ to a nursery culture area for 2 months, before begin transferred to the main grow-out area. The maximum growth and development of young thalli in nursery culture area occurred at 2 m depth, whilst maximum growth of thalli in the main culture area occured at 1.5 m depth. Production of E. stolonifera was between 3 and 9 kg wet wt. m−1 in the first year of culture after seeding and 12 to 13 kg wet wt. m−1 in the second year of culture, after management (depth control and fouling organism removal, etc.) of the holdfast. The relationship between optimal water depth for culture and underwater irradiance during the E. stolonifera cultivation was defined as: y = −0.331x + 8.198 (r 2 = 0.9903). The growth rates achieved in this trial indicate that E. stolonifera cultures could produce sufficient biomass to supply summer feed for the Korean abalone industry.

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Acknowledgements

This work is funded by a grant (F10600206A210000100) from Fisheries Technology Development Program funded by Ministry of Maritime Affairs & Fisheries of Korean government and NFRDI (RP-2008-AQ-105). The authors would like to thank Dr Philip Heath (NIWA, New Zealand) for reviewing the English.

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    Eun Kyoung Hwang & Jae Min Baek

  2. Department of Marine and Fisheries Resources, Mokpo National University, Jeonnam, 534-729, Korea

    Chan Sun Park

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Hwang, E.K., Baek, J.M. & Park, C.S. The mass cultivation of Ecklonia stolonifera Okamura as a summer feed for the abalone industry in Korea. J Appl Phycol 21, 585–590 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-009-9402-4

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