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Posted on 04/12/2005 1:16:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
SCIENTISTS who bred Australia's first hatchery-reared southern rock lobsters have achieved the biological equivalent of "putting man on the moon" Fisheries Minister Senator Ian Macdonald said today. Scientists at the University of Tasmania made the breakthrough, which shortened the normal two year development of an adult lobster to one year. Mr Macdonald said the research could put Australia ahead of the pack in the future commercialisation of lobster farming. "This is a major achievement in the move towards sustainable farming of lobsters and will provide significant opportunities for the future," Mr Macdonald said. Attempts to develop commercial aquaculture of the southern rock lobster began at the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute (TAFI) in 1997, Mr Macdonald said. The research was jointly funded by the federal and Tasmanian government.
I dont like Atlantic Salmon....I guess my six years in Seattle gave me a discernable palate.
I didn't know it was colored. How do they do it?
The Aussies don't have crazed out wackos trying to save lobsters from the tumultuous boiling pot?
Just before they harvest the salmon, they feed them beta carotene I think. I don't really remember. Maybe comes from eating too much colored salmon.........
"The Aussies don't have crazed out wackos trying to save lobsters from the tumultuous boiling pot?"
We have all the fun out here. High overhead, though. FReegards....
I don't know if the farm salmon are Atlantic or Pacific......
I was wondering if I was the only one thinking that!
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The farmed salmon are not naturally red like the wild ones are. Color comes from the diet of prawns and such. Same as the Pink Flamingo. Flamingoes raised in captivity are white unless fed a diet rich in crustaceans......Must be a Jimmy Buffet song in there somewhere.......White sportcoat and a pink crustacean......
That is an offensive term. In the future, please use the officially-approved "Pigmented Piscatory-American".
African or European?
Cartoon half-man/half-medical doctor on the hit show Futurama.
African or European what?
I cant think of a farmed Pacific Salmon.....
We say Salmoniods of Color in the NAACS, Bro.
No crazy looney lefties? If that's true, then Australia must be close to heaven.
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Oh, it's a delicious thing to see. I love lobster, but I can't afford to buy it....yet????
Mmmmm :)
I think they banned guns in Aussieland, though. FReegards....
This is better than frog leg restaurants--just think of the thousands of tiny wheelchairs.
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