Acronym CALOCEAN-DOS
Category
Aquaculture
Title Cultivo larvario de calamares oceánicos - Larval culture of oceanic squid Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Roger Villanueva Coordinator email roger@icm.csic.es
Coordinator institution
CSIC-ICM - Spanish National Research Council; Institut de Ciències del Mar (Spain)
Institutions involved
MINECO - Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Spain) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2015 Funding (€) € NA Website NA Summary Oceanic squids reach the higher cephalopod biomass worldwide and their fishery represents half of the total world cephalopod captures. However, present knowledge of their embryonic and larval stages is very poor. The main challenge of this research project is the culture of oceanic squid paralarvae, objective still not reached by any research team in the world. The attainment of this objective would allow the study under controlled conditions of the growth, behaviour and morphologic adaptations to the environment of oceanic squid paralarvae and will open the possibilities for their aquaculture. Embryos and paralarvae will be obtained using wild collected squids and in vitro fertilization techniques already used by this research team. We also aim to determine the maternal effects that will influence the subsequent egg and larval quality as well as to identify useful characters for rapid discrimination of the quality of hatchling individuals to be used in cultures. The species selected is the broadtail shortfin squid Illex coindetii, the main oceanic squid species fished in Iberian waters. This species belongs to the family Ommastrephidae, the most important fishery resource of oceanic squid worldwide.
Keywords
Squid;
Larval rearing;
Larval quality;
Mollusc;
Larval development;
Growth rate;
Shellfish;
Cephalopod;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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