1 NOVEMBER 1998
ARTEMIA HARVEST 1998
Date: 22 October 1998 20:44
From: BShrimp@aol.com
To: AQUA-L@killick.ifmt.nf.ca
COMMENTS 1:
The brine shrimp harvest will terminate today on the GSL at 18:32 PM with the smallest harvest ever recorded. I guess you can figure the results of this news.
Howard W. Newman
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COMMENTS 2:
There are some brine lakes here in New Mexico and I was wondering if a guy could start and raise them here.
John Hays, <jhays@caverns.com>
1903 Pebble Hill Rd.
Carlsbad, NM 88220, USA
1-505-887-0102
ICQ# 765699
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COMMENTS 3:
Althouth there are abundant supplies of brine shrimp cysts available
from the salt pans of Gujarat in India, no one has apparently been
able to commercialize this resource. Dr. Joseph Royan of the
Institute of Oceanography at Goa investigated the quality of these
cysts and found it to be very high. Perhaps the astronomical prices
which will result from the failure of the GSL supply will stimulate
interest in salterns of Gujarat and other parts of the Gulf of Kutch.
Charles Angell
<clangell@eskimo.com>
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COMMENTS 4:
The market for Artemia cysts worldwide is approximately 2500 metric tons of dry product. There is no feasible way to produce this by intensive culturing.
Although many specialty cyst products are produced by culturing (for
instance high HUFA, small cysts) it is still the wild harvests that supply 99% of the market.
Howard W. Newman
<BShrimp@aol.com>
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COMMENTS 5:
What are abundant supplies....I have collected hundreds of kg (wet wt) of cysts in years past from Tuticorin and other salt works in India but they cannot begin to make a dent in the commercial demands for Artemia cysts. Normally, salt works are used to produce the specialty cysts such as small strains and high HUFA strains. Most Indian species are parthenogenetic.
Howard W. Newman
<BShrimp@aol.com>
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COMMENTS 6:
Artemia cysts harvest in China is better. Estimated quantity is appr.
500 tons dry weight. Due to the inoculation and the application of
Artemia franciscana in the coastal regions, now the Chinese Artemia
species in coastal ponds has changed to Artemia franciscana. The
parthenogenetic species has disappeared.
Liu Fengqi
<fengqi@mail.zlnet.com.cn>