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Improving marketability through translocation: a lobster case study from southern Australia
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Chandrapavan, A and Gardner, C and Green, BS and Linnane, A and Hobday, D, Improving marketability through translocation: a lobster case study from southern Australia, I C E S Journal of Marine Science: (International Council for The Exploration of The Sea), 68, (9) pp. 1842-1851. ISSN 1054-3139 (2011) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright © 2011 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/
DOI: doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsr128
Abstract
Translocation as a method to increase the value of less-marketable, deep-water southern rock lobster Jasus edwardsii was explored.
First, variation in the commercially important shell colouration and body shape between deep- and shallow-water Tasmanian populations
and among South Australian and Victorian populations was quantified. Deep-water J. edwardsii were pale in colour, with longer
walking legs but less meat content than shallow-water, red-coloured J. edwardsii. Traits in body shape were variable among deep-water
populations across the three states and between sexes in each population. Deep-water lobsters were then translocated to a shallowwater
inshore reef to determine whether the observed variation in traits was plastic and whether translocation could be used to
improve the quality of deep-water lobsters. Translocated lobsters were then monitored over a 14-month post-release period, and
during this time, they changed from a pale/white colour to the more marketable red colour within a single moult. Plasticity was
observed in tail morphology, but not in leg morphology. The translocation experiment was successful in transforming pale/white
deep-water lobsters into red lobsters with higher market value in a phenotypic response to habitat manipulation. Translocation
appears to have commercial application for exploiting natural plasticity in the market traits of lobsters to increase price.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | lobster fishery, marketability, shell colour, stock enhancement, value-add. |
| Research Division: | Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences |
| Research Group: | Fisheries sciences |
| Research Field: | Fisheries management |
| Objective Division: | Animal Production and Animal Primary Products |
| Objective Group: | Fisheries - wild caught |
| Objective Field: | Wild caught prawns |
| UTAS Author: | Chandrapavan, A (Miss Arani Chandrapavan) |
| UTAS Author: | Gardner, C (Professor Caleb Gardner) |
| UTAS Author: | Green, BS (Associate Professor Bridget Green) |
| ID Code: | 72110 |
| Year Published: | 2011 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 10 |
| Deposited By: | Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration |
| Deposited On: | 2011-08-22 |
| Last Modified: | 2015-02-04 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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