The Curacao Queen Conch hatchery focuses on releasing cultured 1-year juveniles in selected areas, creating nursery grounds with dense populations. In the current Resembid project “Pilot outplanting cultured juveniles in Curacao and Bonaire”, it was planned to release up to 10,000 juveniles in 2023 and 2024. Programmes such as the Queen Conch Restoration programme on Bonaire are preparing to outplant 5,000 or more cultured Queen Conch per year in the depleted natural population of Lac Bay and 3 other suitable bays on the island. In this project the production of 1-year cultured juveniles will be optimised through designing new culture protocols and test these protocols in a scientific way.
Duration: 20 months
