Last year the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) entered into a contract with NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) entitled Increasing capacity for regional fish feed manufacture in PNG which provided funds to purchase the feed manufacturing equipment involved and enable the Principal Investigators, Drs Geoff Allan and Mark Booth, to participate in the Workshop and provide training in aquaculture nutrition and aquafeed formulation using locally grown agricultural ingredients. ACIAR also fund several other inland aquaculture projects in PNG and developing cost-effective feeds and feeding strategies are key R&D priorities within these projects. The aquaculture.
