An assessment of the aquaculture potential of the tropical sponges Rhopaloeides odorabile and Coscinoderma sp.

Aquaculture

Volumn 270, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 57-67

  Louden, D ^a   Whalan, S ^a   Evans Illidge, E ^a,b   Wolff, C ^a,b   de Nys, R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coscinoderma sp.; Explant; Growth; Recovery; Rhopaloeides odorabile; Sponge; Survival

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; MITIGATION; MORTALITY; SPONGE; SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

COSCINODERMA; DICTYOCERATIDA; PORIFERA; RHOPALOEIDES ODORABILE; SPONGIIDAE;

EID: 34547828898     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2007.02.038     Document Type: Article

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