AQUACULTURE / MARINE BIOLOGY CONSULTANCIES

Phone / 61(07) 47 785 096 / Fax 61(07)47785096

Email: braley@austarnet.com.au or info@aquasearch.net.au

AQUASEARCH

Tropical Aquaculture, Marine Biology Consultancies,

Laboratory and Aquarium

Dr. Richard D. Braley, Chief Consultant, and

Mrs. Cornelia (Nell) H.A. Braley, Manager-in-Charge

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Consultancy Packages

Contact Aquasearch for further information on consultancy packages tailored for your requirements.

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Practical Aquaculture Training

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For individuals or small groups (2-4) who wish to gain a better understanding of some animal husbandry and aquaculture techniques, Aquasearch offers a short, practical job-training for a weekend or 1 week maximum.  Mrs. Nell Braley can conduct these short trainings when Dr. Rick Braley is not available.

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Publications:

Over 50 scientific publications since mid-1970s, including refereed journals, manuals, sections in books & reports.  The topics include:  aquaculture, tropical oysters & giant clams, cultivation & reproduction, recruitment, natural spatial distribution & abundance, use of hatchery stock to restock reefs, trochus distribution & culture, blacklip pearl oyster stocks, hatchery culture & protocols, hygiene & supplies.

Project Experience:

Stock surveys:   coral trout & giant clams on the GBR, Australia (for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority).

Stock surveys: giant clam & pearl oysters in Pacific Islands (for FAO).

Hatchery setup (Macrobrachium sp. & penaeid prawns) at Seafarm Pty. Ltd., Qld., Australia.

Hatchery farm input with team (giant clams) for ACIAR/James Cook University, Qld., Australia.

Hatchery design for Cook Islands + input in Philippines, Tonga, Fiji, Tuvalu, & Kiribati in connection with the ACIAR / James Cook University Giant Clam Project.

MSEP (Marine Sciences Education Project) Consultant on an ADB-project at 6 Indonesian Universities; seawater systems & hatchery / lab designs + training [UNRI-Sumatra;IPB-Java;UNDIP-Java;UNHAS-So. Sulawesi; UNSRAT-No. Sulawesi, UNPATTI-Ambon].

Design, on-site setup, training at world's first commercial trochus hachery, Molluccas Mariculture pearl farm, E. Indonesia.

Conceptual designs for multi-species hatcheries:  1) Ceram Island, E. Indonesia, 2) Kimberley Aquaculture Corp., Broome, W.A., Australia, 3) Torres Strait Regional Authority for multi-species hatchery feasibility study.

Head of ADB project Outer Islands Marine Resources Management Training Project; upgrading & commercialising a blacklip pearl oyster hatchery + lagoon growout trials for Cook Islands Government - Penrhyn, Cook Islands.

Design, fitting-out, training for a new private blacklip pearl oyster hatchery at Fakarava, Tuamotu, French Polynesia.

Troubleshooting for a scallop hatchery (Amusium balloti) & recirculation system initiated in Geraldton, W.A., Australia.

Modification designs for brackishwater & saltwater hatcheries in Bangladesh for the Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute & a World Bank Project [through Arcadis Euroconsult]; species included Macrobrachium freshwater prawn, mudcrab & seabass (barramundi).

Management in large commercial silverlip pearl oyster (Pinctada maxima) farm in eastern Indonesia for 2 years. Hatchery, juvenile growout, selection, conditioning, operations, x-raying, and harvest, daily checks on oysters lifted on cleaning boats, nuclei stock management, and research programs.