Nursery management of grouper: a best-practice manual.

Abstract

This manual provides practical guidelines for those engaged in the nursery culture of groupers in Indonesia as well as elsewhere in the tropics. The nursery phase is an intermediate step between hatchery production of seed and stocking of grow-out farms. It involves growing delicate juvenile fish of 23 cm long through to physically robust animals of 510 cm long. The manual provides information on husbandry of groupers in the nursery phase, to reduce losses due to disease and cannibalism, and thus to increase the profitability of grouper nursing