Differential growth rate studies in cultured commercial sponges

Improve the efficiency of commercial sponge farms by conducting several simultaneous studies at the demonstration farm in Pohnpei, federated states of Micronesia; determin the cause of the large vriations in growth rates of cultured commercial sponges; determine whether sponges with high growth rates retain those high growth rates after being cut into smaller pieces and whether cutting sponges with low growth rates stimulates growth; determine whether the final morphology and growth rate of cultured sponges is determined by the physical and biological environment during the culture period or by the morphotype of the wild parent stock or by the position in the donor sponge from which the cutting was taken

Environment - Protection - Samoa