OCEANIC INSTITUTE OF HPU RESEARCHERS PRESENT AT AQUACULTURE 2025

Researchers from Oceanic Institute (OI) of Hawaiʻi Pacific University attended “Aquaculture 2025” from March 6 to March 10, 2025, in New Orleans.  This conference is the largest aquaculture conference and tradeshow in the world with nearly 4,000 attendees from over 90 countries.  The conference combined the annual meetings of the National Shellfisheries Association, the Fish Culture Section of the American Fisheries Society, the World Aquaculture Society, and the National Aquaculture Association.

OI researchers provided three oral presentations based on their research at the Makapuʻu campus, including:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED MULTI-TROPHIC AQUACULTURE SYSTEM TO RESTORE HAWAII’S VULNERABLE LIMU (SEAWEED) POPULATIONS 

By Shaun Moss, Dustin Moss, Carolyn Jones
The goal of this project was to develop an Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture system for limu culture using nutrients supplied by fish and shrimp pond effluent. Results from this study indicate that limu from Hawaii can be grown in fish and shrimp pond effluent as a potential secondary cash crop while acting as a biofilter to remove nutrients from the effluent stream. 

AQUACULTURE TECHNIQUES AND EARLY LIFE HISTORY OF THE HAWAIIAN ENDEMIC POTTER’S ANGELFISH, Centropyge potter

By Chatham Callan, Kent Glover
This research documents the first commercial aquaculture success and larval growth of Potter’s angelfish, providing critical data for future larviculture research of thai species and other reef fishes. This work has broader implications for sustainable aquarium trade practices, contributing to reef conservation efforts by reducing wild capture pressures on wild populations.  

THE ROLE of DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS, CHALLENGE ASSAYS, AND BIOSECURITY IN THE SELECTIVE BREEDING OF Litopenaeus vannamei

By Dustin Moss, Shaun Moss
Over the last 45 years, infectious diseases have negatively impacted shrimp aquaculture production worldwide, resulting in the loss of billions of dollars in revenue. Developments in disease diagnostics and pathogen-challenge assays, as well as the implementation of biosecurity measures, have greatly aided selective breeding efforts and the shrimp farming industry as a whole.

To learn more about these OI of HPU research projects, click the above links, which will take you to the abstracts of the projects.

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