Report on field visit to SARDI (Aquatic Sciences)

Aquatic Sciences is a seek division under SARDI with a main motto of the sustainable growth of s verbotenh-central Australian Industries. The South Australian Aquatic Sciences Centre (SAASC) is located at West shore on the shores of Gulf St. Vincent and most of the inquiry works in aquatic biology are conducted here. The thrust areas of research include 1. Aquaculture Here sprightly research is being carried out for fresh body of water, brackish and nautical aquaculture needs. This include cultivation of diets, species selection and so forth2. Marine Environment and Ecology conduct research on habitat mapping, environmental impact assessment, etc. . Oceanography seek to understand the influence of oceanographic factors on climate. 4. Wild Fisheries They carry out mental strain assessment works and provide necessary information to the industries involved for the sustainable exploitation of the stocks such as abalone, rock lobster, prawns, snapper, garfish and Australian sardi nes. besides undertakes surveys to measure the impact of fishing effort on fish stocks. 5. upcountry Waters & Catchment Ecology Undertake research on inland water habitats. There are 87 research and technical staff, 18 condescend staff and 40 postgraduate positions at West Beach research centre.The facilities include a central library with the most modern and general literature of different aspects of aquatic sciences. The pool farm has facilities to carry out research in both marine and freshwater environments with tanks of different capacities. We were allowed to phone the different research infrastructure facilities such as coastal finfish hatcheries, civilise aquaculture laboratories, controlled environment rooms, fish aging laboratories, image analysis rooms etc. As a whole, the trip was of great use to understand the non-homogeneous research activities that are going on in the field of marine biology.