Inland saline aquaculture

Key research

• New production systems for inland saline aquaculture
• The management of environmental impacts from inland saline aquaculture
• Genetic improvement in aquaculture species
• The effects of variable ionic composition on fish growth and health

Funding bodies

Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

Related publications

Doupé, R.G. and Lymbery, A.J. 2002. Justification for genetic improvement in growth rates of black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri): a partial budgeting analysis. Aquaculture Economics and Management 6: 339-347.

Doupé, R.G., Lymbery, A.J., Sarre, G.A., Jenkins, G.I., Partridge, G.J. and George, R.J. 2003. The national research and development plan for commercial inland saline aquaculture: a view from afar. Natural Resource Management 6: 31-34.

Doupé, R.G., Lymbery, A.J. and Starcevich, M.R. 2003. Rethinking the land: the development of inland saline aquaculture in Western Australia. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 1: 30-37.

Doupé, R.G. and Lymbery, A.J. 2003. Toward the genetic improvement of feed conversion efficiency in fish. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 34: 245-254.

Doupé, R.G., Lymbery, A.J. and Greeff, J. 2003. Genetic variation in the growth traits of straight-bred and crossbred black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri Munro) at 90 days of age. Aquaculture Research 34: 1297-1301.

Doupé, R.G. and Lymbery, A.J. 2004. Indicators of genetic variation for feed conversion efficiency in black bream. Aquaculture Research 35: 1305-1309.

Doupé, R.G. and Lymbery, A.J. 2005. Additive genetic and other sources of variation in growth traits of juvenile black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri. Aquaculture Research 36: 621-626.

Doupé, R.G. and Lymbery, A.J. 2005. Genetic covariation in production traits of sub-adult black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri after grow-out. Aquaculture Research 36: 1128-1132.

Doupé, R.G., Sarre, G.A., Partridge, G.J., Lymbery, A.J. and Jenkins, G.I. 2005. What are the prospects for black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri (Munro) aquaculture in salt-affected inland Australia? Aquaculture Research 36: 1345-1355.

Doupé, R.G. and Lymbery, A.J. 2005. Environmental risks associated with beneficial end uses of mine lakes in southwestern Australia. Mine Water and the Environment 24: 134-138.

Lever, C., Lymbery, A.J. and Doupé, R.G. 2004. Preliminary comparisons of yield and profit achieved from different rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) production systems in inland Western Australia. Journal of Applied Aquaculture 16: 63-74.

Lymbery, A.J., Doupé, R.G., Bennett, T. and Starcevich, M. R. 2006. Efficacy of a subsurface-flow wetland using the estuarine sedge Juncus kraussii to treat effluent from inland saline aquaculture. Aquacultural Engineering 34: 1-6.

Lymbery, A., Starcevich, M., and Doupé, R. 2007. Managing Environmental Impacts in Inland Saline Aquaculture. Final report to the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Canberra, ACT (http://www.rirdc.gov.au/fullreports/efm.html)

Partridge, G.J. and Creeper, J. 2004. Skeletal myopathy in juvenile barramundi, Lates calcarifer (Bloch), cultured in potassium-deficient saline groundwater. Journal of Fish Diseases 27: 523-530.

Partridge, G.J., Sarre, G.A., Ginbey, B.M., Kay, G.D., Jenkins, G.I. 2006. Finfish production in a static, inland saline water body using a Semi-Intensive Floating Tank System (SIFTS). Aquacultural Engineering 35: 109-121.

Starcevich, M.R., Lymbery, A.J. and Doupé, R.G. 2003. Potential environmental impacts from farming rainbow trout using inland saline water in Western Australia. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 10: 15-24.

Stephens, F.J and Ingram, M. 2006. Two cases of fish mortality in low pH, aluminium rich water. Journal of Fish Diseases 29: 765-770.