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Lobster Farming

These reports are in a constant state of revision. If you would like to correct or add information to one of them, contact Bob Rosenberry at bob@shrimpnews.com.

Darden Restaurant's Lobster Farm in Malaysia: Darden Restaurants, the owner of the Red Lobster chain of restaurants, has started a long-term project to develope a huge lobster farm in Malaysia. When completed, it will have the capability of producing $1 billion worth of lobsters a year for the Asian market, particularly China.

Lobster Harvest, Pty., Ltd.: Based in Western Australia, Lobster Harvest leads the world in lobster hatchery technology.  It recently embarked on a lobster farming project in Sabah, Malaysia, that will grow hatchery-produced, slipper lobsters in floating sea cages.  Its hatchery-produced spiny lobsters will also be tested at the pilot farm.

Free Copy of the Proceedings of a Conference on Spiny Lobster Farming: Published by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Spiny Lobster Aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific Region is the 162-page proceedings of an international conference held in Nha Trang, Vietnam, on December 9–10, 2008.In addition to papers contributed by leading lobster researchers in the Asia–Pacific region, the proceedings contains 16 papers that report the results of research carried out in a four-year ACIAR lobster aquaculture project involving six agencies from Australia, Vietnam and Indonesia. Pictures. Summary. Table of Contents.