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NMAI 2006
State: SC
Principal Investigator: Theodore Smith
SELECTED PHOTOS
 Two day old larvae are stocked into intensive nursery systems in Texas and pond nursery systems in South Carolina. |
 Recreational anglers assist in release of juveniles and in capture of adults for research studies. |
 Cobia are the focus of many fishing tournaments along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. |
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 Stocking events are always popular with the public and new media. |
 Genetic tools are being used to determine the population structure of cobia along the Atlantic coast as well as to identify recaptured stocked fish. |
 Tank nursery systems in Virginia are used to produce large juveniles for fishery enhancement studies. |
 Cultured broodstock conditioning and spawning tank using recirculated water in Texas. |
 Small juvenile cobia being released into the Colleton River, SC, to examine the effect of size at release on recapture levels. |
 Externally tagged large juveniles are stocked as part of fishery enhancement studies in South Carolina and Virginia. |
 In South Carolina, juveniles for fishery enhancement studies are produced in ponds at the Waddell Mariculture Center. |
 Identification of suitable transport techniques will allow shipment of larvae and juveniles from hatcheries to grow-out sites. |
Recently captured adult to be used in spawning trials in South Carolina |
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