Full article issued by University of Tasmania.
ARC supported researchers at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), who developed a world-first method to breed rock lobsters commercially, have now paved the way for a Moreton Bay bug aquaculture industry in Tasmania.
Based at IMAS’s Taroona laboratories, the ARC Research Hub for Commercial Development of Rock Lobster Culture Systems began researching hatchery techniques for the bay lobster, Thenus oriental, better known as the Moreton Bay bug, in September 2017.
The Research Hub’s Director, Associate Professor Greg Smith, said the successful application to Bay lobsters of the IMAS techniques developed for tropical rock lobsters has now made possible a commercial operation in Tasmania.