Friday 11 July 2014

Enhancing green sea urchin egg production

Enhancing green sea urchin egg production to aid Maine's depressed urchin market is the research focus of a University of Maine marine bioresources graduate student.

Ung Wei Kenn, a second-year master's student from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, hopes to increase the egg or roe yield of farm-raised green sea urchins through high-quality feed, a process known as bulking. His research is part of a two-year, more than $215,000 research project funded by the National Sea Grant National Strategic Initiative and led by director Nick Brown and biologist Steve Eddy of UMaine's Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR) in Franklin, Maine.

"I was always interested in the vertical integration of aquaculture and seafood processing," says Ung, who completed his undergraduate work at the University of Tasmania, Australia. "I am also passionate about seafood that is popular in Asia. This topic is a blend of all that."



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