METHOD OF INTENSIVE COHORT CULTIVATION OF ACARTIA (SEA CALANOID COPEPODS) Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC A01K61/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: method includes receiving adult mature specimens from the natural environment and maintaining them in a disinfectant solution. From the eggs of adult copepods in the age of 11-12 days the acartia broodstock is formed at a density of less than 300 specimens / l, which is fed with the mixture of microalgae Isochrysis galbana, Rhodomonas baltica, Prorocentrum at the minimum volume ratio of cultures 1:1:1 with the aeration of no more than 500 ml/min, with lighting from above, with the regular replacement of fresh disinfected seawater. After one day, and over the next 10 days, the eggs are collected, for which purpose every 12 hours daily the aeration is turned off, and 30 minutes after 0.01 part of total seawater amount is drained off. The Acartia eggs are collected on a sieve, washed and disinfected. Then, within 24 hours, the incubation of Acartia eggs is performed, until the nauplii are hatched, of which the age cohorts of Acartia are reared.

EFFECT: obtaining and long-term operating a mass artificial monospecific population of Acartia.

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