Mexico: Faculty of Marine Sciences of University of Baja California produces more than one million offspring of totoaba

Published 2022년 1월 11일

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The University Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) has made significant advancements in the expansion of its Biotechnology Unit in Fish Farming at the Faculty of Marine Sciences (FCM), capable of producing over one million baby curvina (Totoaba macdonaldi). The unit, with over 3,000 square meters of construction and 1,200 cubic meters of space for totoaba cultivation, has migrated all production from the old laboratory to the new expansion, resulting in a production of over 200,000 totoaba hatchlings in 2021, nearly four times more than the previous installation. The majority of these hatchlings will be used for conservation and some will be released into the Upper Gulf of California to promote sustainability.

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KARLA PADILLA. THE WATCHMAN. ENSENADA, Baja California. With the capacity to produce more than one million baby curvina (Totoaba macdonaldi), the UABC has managed to advance in the consolidation of the expansion of the Biotechnology Unit in Fish Farming of the Faculty of Marine Sciences (FCM), where they reproduce and they breed this endemic species of the Gulf of California. Luz López Acuña, director of the FCM, explained that this unit has more than 3,000 square meters of construction and 1,200 cubic meters of space for cultivating totoabas, a species that is currently protected by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat). He indicated that in the last two years all the production of the old laboratory has been migrated to the new expansion, since 2021 marked a great change as we are very advanced in the operation of the entire infrastructure, since this year there is a total of just over 200 thousand totoaba hatchlings weighing 3 to 25 grams. The ...

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