sessions


Session 5

Session 5 (A.M.): Aquaculture
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Chair: Junda Lin
9:00–10:00 a.m.



Keynote Speaker
Developments in seahorse culture: the long snout seahorse case study
Jorge Palma, CCMar, University of the Algarve, Portugal
10:00–10:20 a.m.


Captive breeding of weedy sea dragons Phyllopteryx taeniolatus in Busan Aquarium, South Korea
Emily Madge
10:20–10:40 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
10:40–11:00 a.m.






Brazilian research network on the longsnout seahorse Hippocampus reidi culture
Lilia Pereira Souza-Santos, Felipe de Azevedo Silva Ribeiro, Alexandre Alter Wainberg, Maik Cividanes Hora, Roberta Cecilia de Silfronio de Melo, Ricardo Vieira Rodrigues, Marcelo Shei, Luis Andre Sampaio, Ronaldo de Oliveira Cavalli,
Wagner Contri Valenti
11:00–11:20 a.m.




A method for diet analysis in the long snouted seahorse Hippocampus guttulatus based on prey 18SrDNA amplification in faeces reveals prey-specific evacuation rate
Emmanuel Corse
, Sonia Valladares, Alex Chamorro, Miguel Planas, José Pintado
11:20–11:40 a.m.

Seahorse aquaculture: from research to commercial production
Junda Lin, Qiang Lin
11:40 a.m.–12:40 p.m.


Keynote Speaker
The tale of the pregnant male: whither seahorses?
Amanda Vincent, Director, Project Seahorse, Canada
12:40–2:00 p.m. LUNCH