We are looking for a research assistant that will help manage an aquaculture system and evaluate its viability.
Our experiments show that the use of duckweeds not only significantly affects the cost of aquaculture and alleviate pressure on wild fish population, but that duckweeds also address water pollution and thus improves the aquatic environment for the fish.
The goal of the current project is to better understand the benefits of growing stripe bass for stocking. Two systems will be used for this project: the first is used to grow the fingerlings to young adults (weighing 20 to 30 grams), and the second where the stripe bass will be grown to a weight of 200 to 300 grams per fish and then released to the wild while being tagged and the fish behavior in the wild monitored. The project builds on work we did to evaluate the efficiency and the economic viability of our aquaculture systems, and using this knowledge to develop systems to restock the stripe bass population in New Jersey.
The Aresty student will take an active part in running and documenting water quality and fish health and reevaluate and reassess the various hypotheses, which were tested using red-belly pacu fish.
The student will document the results, describe the data and present our finding such that others can replicate them. The student will help evaluate the viability of of a duckweed based aquaculture system.
The project will use the findings and information to enumerate the conditions that will be critical for these systems to become commercial and widely used.
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