Salt Lake Artemia

The ability of the artemia to produce dormant eggs known as cysts has led to extensive use of artemia in aquaculture.

Salt lake artemia.

Although small they serve as an essential food source for millions of birds that breed or stopover at the great salt lake during migration and in recent years these shrimp support a multi million dollar commercial harvest. Artemia are able to avoid cohabiting with most types of predators such as fish by their ability to live in waters of very high salinity up to 25. We recommend that all bio marine brand artemia be kept in a cool dry place during transport and receiving. Artemia cysts great salt lake u s a.

66 89 122 5888. Even artemia kept under cool dry conditions will begin to vary its hatch within 3 to 5 over the course of 6 12 months. Salinity also affects the algae in the lake which the brine shrimp feed on. The great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative is a group of member companies working together to produce the world s finest artemia products from the world s greatest source great salt lake.

Salt lake brine shrimp. Taxonomy distribution and conservation artemia salina was first described as cancer salinus by carl linnaeus in his systema naturae in 1758. The cooperative was formed in 2006 when sixteen harvest companies joined together to create the great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative inc. Our cooperative s collective mission and goals are used to focus on producing quality artemia products preserving the environment and continuing to provide world renowned quality brine shrimp.

Freezer storage is not necessary unless you intend on holding artemia for more than 6 months. Artemia occurs in vast numbers in the great salt lake where it is commercially important. However nowadays it is believed that the brine shrimp of this lake is another species a. Brine shrimp eggs gsl from utah u s a.

Several conditions affect the availability of the egg from year to year. Great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative gsl artemia. Salinity is crucial for the harvest. The brine shrimp artemia franciscana thrives here regardless of the salty water and fluctuating water temperatures.

Artemia cysts are used as live feed for larval stage fish and shrimp in hatcheries in europe asia central and south america and around the world. Great salt lake artemia is building upon the tradition of quality dependability and nutrition that is synonomous with artemia from great salt lake. When the salinity falls below 5 the egg becomes less buoyant and is difficult to harvest. The cooperative excels at harvesting and processing artemia cysts directly from the world s best source great salt lake and its lakeshore.