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OBJECTIVES
- Description and characterization of the Aral Sea Artemia population: biology (incl. life history studies), population dynamics, cyst quality characteristics and their potential for aquaculture.
- Development of a population model for Aral Artemia resource.
- Resource management recommendations: evaluation of the Artemia resource as a sustainable and economically valuable resource, estimation of annual sustainable yield, impact of ecological factors on sustainable yield, link with water management of Amu Darya delta region.
- Transfer of technology and know-how, and training of partner institutes in all techniques needed to attain objectives a-b-c, and to realize a sustainable economic exploitation of Aral SeaArtemia
- Recommendations towards end-users on optimal utilisation of resource: site-specific strategies for harvest, transport, and processing, potential economic benefit, estimation of employment generated by sustainable Artemia cyst industry, and cost/benefit analysis.
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