Funded Project #4 - Advancement of Yellow Perch Aquaculture


(funded project 4)

Description

The fourth Yellow Perch Funded Project.  Chaired by Jeff Malison

Objectives:

  1. To determine the commercial scale feasibility and improve on the best intensive tank and pond culture practices for the production of yellow perch fingerlings. 
  2. To determine the commercial scale feasibility of raising food-size yellow perch in flow-through raceways or tanks, open ponds, and large net-pens, comparing the best available formulated diets.

Participants:

Principal Investigator(s)/Institution Objectives

Funding

Fred P. Binkowski (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)      1

$30,000

Jeffrey A. Malison (University of Wisconsin-Madison)      1

$46,000

Terrence B. Kayes (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)   1 & 2

$30,000

Konrad Dabrowski/James M. Ebeling (Ohio State University)      1

$24,000

Paul B. Brown (Purdue University)      2

$20,000

Total

$150,000



Project Outline (193K pdf file)

Report (84K pdf file)

Other Resources:





Project Number: 4
Duration: 9/1/93 - 12/31/95
Funding Level: $150,000
Grant Number: 93-38500-9302