by Matt Pedersen | Aug 24, 2016 | Marine, News & Notes
In what is shaping up to be a banner summer for marine ornamental aquaculture, Rising Tide Conservation started this week by announcing success with breeding Centropyge potteri. That success, at the hands of aquaculturist and Oceanic Institute intern Avier J....
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 22, 2016 | Marine
Potter’s Angelfish, Centropyge potteri, is a coveted aquarium fish and a Hawaiian endemic. With Hawaii’s reef fishes at the center of ongoing controversy–anti-aquarium activists are painting the state’s managed fishery in as grave a light as...
by CORAL Magazine | Jul 20, 2016 | Marine, News & Notes
Rising Tide Conservation and the UF Tropical Aquaculture Lab Announce Ocean Conservation Breakthrough Success raising Pacific Blue Tangs via Rising Tide Conservation Fort Plain, NY, July 20, 2016—Rising Tide Conservation, in partnership with the University of Florida,...
by Matt Pedersen | Apr 15, 2016 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
It was admittedly surreal to look at the holding tank in my fishroom this March and realize it housed five of the first captive-bred Yellow Tangs the world has ever known. I quipped online among my friends that I never thought that I’d see this happen in one of my...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 11, 2016 | Marine, News & Notes
The result of decades of aquaculture experimentation and more research dollars than have been expended on any other marine aquarium fish species, members of the first successful captive spawning and rearing of Yellow Tangs to achieve market size will appear in the...