1 NOVEMBER 1999
Sent: October 11, 1999
From: <Shrimpnews@aol.com>
To: <Shrimp@onelist.com>
COMMENTS 1:
As I write this, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has placed another seven-day delay on the opening of the brine shrimp harvest season. DWR can only do this one more time, and then it has to declare the season "open" or "closed". I've looked at the data gathered by the DWR, the United States Geological Service, and INVE and the situation is bleak. If I had to guess, I would guess that the season will not open.
A closure will hurt the Utah's brine shrimp industry and reduce the
supply of Artemia, but the loss can be mitigated somewhat by foreign
Artemia. A tremendous amount of information has been circulated to
discredit foreign Artemia, but it's important, as important as the harvest from the Great Salt Lake. To counter balance the erratic harvests from the Great Salt Lake, INVE locates, harvests, processes and markets foreign Artemia.
We also purchased an algae harvesting company operating under the name Plankton Fisheries International, Inc. It will harvest Aphanizomenon flos-aquae and Daphnia from Klamath Lake, Oregon. Additionally, we purchased the barge "Tulana". It's 150 feet long and 55 feet wide and has been turned into a floating harvest and processing platform for Daphnia, which can be harvested and immediately flash frozen or dried on board, insuring the highest nutritional quality possible.
With the increased cost and reduced availability of Artemia, shrimp
hatchery managers are looking for new feeds. We recommend Aphanizomenon, at 15% of the traditional larval diet. Both products can become important nutritional sources in compound diets for finfish and shrimp larvae, providing immunostimulant properties as well as attractant benefits.
Information: Howard Newman, Desert Lake Technologies, Inc., 853 Spring Street, Klamath Falls, OR 97601 USA (phone 541-850-7689, fax 850-7690, email bshrimp@aol.com.
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COMMENTS 2:
Sent: October 23, 1999
From: <BShrimp@aol.com>
To: <BRINE-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Next Monday (25/10/99) the Division of Wildlife Resources in Utah will open the season to harvest on the Great Salt Lake (GSL) from the North arm only. There are very limited Artemia cysts in this local but it was better than a total cancellation of the harvesting season. The north arm of the GSL is hovering around saturation (264ppt) and most Artemia in this part are fighting dessication and have little energy for reproduction. The south arm (traditional harvest site) is around 75-80 ppt and with this low salinity has caused a buoyancy problem with the cysts, causing them to sink. The DWR has rightfully halted harvest on this side....electing to error on the side of prudance.
Other Artemia resources have been harvested over the last several years making it difficult for the end-user to determine the source of the cysts. Primarily these cysts have come from Turkmenistan, Russia and China. The majority of these sources are parthenogenetic and are larger cysts than the GSL. Nutritionally they are equal in most applications.
This leads me to the following: Artemia will be in VERY short supply for the upcoming year and we cannot expect any relief until the GSL is fully productive again. What will this require? In an ideal world the causeway would be further breached that divides the two sides. Who should do this? Well the politicians are pointing to the railroad and vice-versa. My opinion is that we all need to take some initiative to solve the problem....Artemia industry, State, Union Pacific Railroad, mineral extraction companies etc. So in signing off....if you have immediate needs for Artemia cysts...don't wait, the price will continue to rise and availability will become more difficult.
Howard Newman
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