AQUACULTURE / MARINE BIOLOGY CONSULTANCIES

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

Email: braley@austarnet.com.au

AQUASEARCH

Tropical Aquaculture, Marine Biology Consultancies,

Laboratory and Aquarium

Dr. Richard D. Braley, Chief Consultant & Manager, and

Mrs. Cornelia (Nell) H.A. Braley, Assistant Manager(

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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 at our laboratory for a weekend or 1 week maximum. Alternatively, Dr. Braley can travel and conduct a short training given there are some facilities to carry out the practical training aspects.

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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.

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Stock microalgae, Chaetoceros muelleri, reared with Aquasearch medium. This medium is cheap and works as well as the standard f2 algal medium for diatoms, for Chlorella- type microalgae, and for some flagellate microalgae. Dr. Braley has started microalgal labs in hatcheries and laboratories in the Pacific, Australia, S. and SE Asia. 

Photographs (above and below) of the Pohon Batu (W. Seram Island, Maluku, Indonesia) Moluccas Mariculture Trochus Hatchery.  View from the sea with the jetty being constructed in 1996.  This is the World’s first commercial trochus hatchery designed by Dr. Rick Braley.

Barrang Lompo Isl., So. Sulawesi, Indonesia. Setup and training in shellfish hatchery, R. Braley 1994-95 [Dr. Mark Erdmann photo]

A marine ornamental, the clown anemonefish [Amphiprion percula] for display and breeding at Aquasearch

Wild blacklip pearl oyster spat [Pinctada margaritifera] collected by divers (above), and hatchery-reared blacklip pearl oyster spat in nursery growout.   Penrhyn lagoon, northern Cook Islands, 1996-97.  Dr. Rick Braley was contracted to head an Asian Development Bank Project aimed to establish in-house expertise to run a re-designed blacklip pearl oyster hatchery, to undertake lagoon environmental monitoring and management, to design pearl farm research trials, to undertake extension in cultured pearl farming, and to impart environmental awareness among the island communities.  One of the major achievements was the production of >450,000 spat by mid-1997, which may have held the distinction of being a world record spat production of this species to that date. Dr. Braley also worked in management of a large pearl farm in eastern Indonesia from 2004-2006 with the silver-lip pearl oyster Pinctada maxima.

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AQUASEARCH

PrimaryBusiness Address:

6-10 Elena St., Nelly Bay, Magnetic Island,

Qld.4819

Phone: (07) 47 785 096

Fax:(07) 47 785 096

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

Click here to read some papers by Dr. Rick Braley