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  1. EVALUATING THE NUCLEUS ESTATE MODEL FOR HATCHERY-BASED PEARL FARMS ON REMOTE ATOLLS

    SBC: Black Pearls Inc            Topic: N/A

    Not Available The U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands are extremely isolated rural communities, with limited opportunities, and attendant socio-economic ailments. The best opportunity for sustainable economic development is lucrative black pearl farming. This offers great potential, but wild oysters are scarce, and prospective local farmers lack necessary support. Our first commercial farm in Majuro ...

    SBIR Phase II 1999 Department of Agriculture
  2. First Triploidy in Tropical Bivalves: Can This Increase Profitability in Pearl Farms?

    SBC: Black Pearls Inc            Topic: N/A

    Triploidy offers an excellent opportunity for increased profitability and competitiveness of hatchery-based pearl farming in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands and Hawaii, for little additional cost. Techniques developed in Phase I for inducing triploidy in black-lip pearl oysters (Pinctada margaritifera) using Cytochalasin B and 6-DMAP were very successful ? up to 100% in several cases. These ex ...

    SBIR Phase II 2002 Department of Agriculture
  3. PROCESS MODIFICATION TO MINIMIZE TOXIC CHEMICAL GENERATION IN VERMICULITE PROCESSING

    SBC: Enoree Minerals Corp.            Topic: N/A

    IN 1985, 947 BILLION GALLONS OF WATER WERE CONTAMINATED WITH1.4 BILLION POUNDS OF CHMICAL REAGENTS IN FROTH FLOTATION SEPARATION OF INDUSTRIAL MINERALS IN THE UNITED STATES. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THESE APPROXIMATE QUANTITIES WERE ALSO USED IN 1986 AND 1987. OF THIS TOTAL, APPROXIMATELY 42.2 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER WERE CONTAMINATED WITH 8.6 MILLION POUNDS OF CHEMICAL REAGENTS IN VERMICULITE FROTH ...

    SBIR Phase II 1989 Environmental Protection Agency
  4. COMMERCIAL CULTURE OF STRIPED SNAKEHEAD (CHANNA STRIATUS)

    SBC: HAWAII FISH COMPANY INC.            Topic: N/A

    Not Available The striped snakehead or murrel is a highly prized foodfish in Asia. Several thousand metric tons of frozen snakeheads are imported annually to supply the existing demand for this fish by the domestic Asian seafood market. The striped snakehead was introduced to the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, in the early 1800s, where a small established population remains. The successfully completed Ph ...

    SBIR Phase II 1999 Department of Agriculture
  5. Commercial Culture of Asian Sea Bass (Lates Calcarifer)

    SBC: HAWAII FISH COMPANY INC.            Topic: N/A

    Objectives: Phase I research demonstrated the feasibility of rotifer production and enrichment, and day 1-15 larval rearing of Asian sea bass (Lates calcarifer) at an inland hatchery site in Hawaii. The overall objective of the Phase II research and development effort will be to remove all further technical impediments to the profitable culture of Asian sea bass in Hawaii. The specific technical o ...

    SBIR Phase II 2002 Department of Agriculture
  6. Hawaii-Molokai Solar Sea Salt

    SBC: Hawaii Kai Salts            Topic: N/A

    HMSSS project focuses on the production of solar sea salt-leveraging sun, seawater, and wind resources-as the basis for commercial enterprises, jobs, and entrepreneurial opportunities for Molokai, an economically depressed community. The feasibility of HMSSS processes was clearly substantiated by Phase I test results, which showed that the processed products met FDA requirements. Phase II is the c ...

    SBIR Phase II 2002 Department of Agriculture
  7. TARO IMPORT SUBSTITUTION: STRATEGIES FOR HAWAII'S AGRICULTURE

    SBC: Hawaii Taro Growers Hui            Topic: N/A

    Not Available Hawai'i's agriculture has been transforming in response to changing world conditions and competitiveness. No longer are sugar and pineapple plantation farming the mainstays of Hawai'i's agricultural economy. The focus now is on diversified and sustainable agriculture, taking place on small to medium size family- farms. These entrepreneurial farmers are providing new opportunities tow ...

    SBIR Phase II 1999 Department of Agriculture
  8. DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTO-ACTIVE DYES AS INSECTICIDES FOR FIRE ANTS

    SBC: Hilton Head Laboratories, Inc.            Topic: N/A

    Not Available The United State Department of Agricultural (USDA) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) in conjunction with other Federal and State Organizations, have conducted a number of integrated pest management programs to eradicate various types of household pest including Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA). Recent programs have involved application of products such as Malat ...

    SBIR Phase II 1999 Department of Agriculture
  9. HEAVY METAL REMOVAL AT THE PPB LEVEL FROM CULINARY WATER USING A NOVEL MACROCYCLE-SILICA GEL DEVICE

    SBC: IBC ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC            Topic: N/A

    IT IS DESIRABLE TO HAVE A MTHOD FOR EFFICIENT, COST EFFEC- TIVE, AND SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL OF PB(II), AG(I), CD(II) AND HG(II) FROM POTABLE WATER TO LEVELS WELL BELOW THEIR EPA LIMITS. SUCH A METHOD COULD BE USED BY BOTH MUNICIPAL WATER WASTE TREATMENT PLALNTS. THE INTERACTION OF THE MACROCYCLE TETRAAZA-18CROWN WITH THE METALS OF INTEREST IS OF SUFFI- CIENT STRENGTH AND SELECTIVITY TO REMOVE THE ME ...

    SBIR Phase II 1989 Environmental Protection Agency
  10. Magnetophoresis as Novel Means for Transgenesis

    SBC: Kuehnle AgroSystems Corporation            Topic: N/A

    1.Establish magnetophoresis gene transfer protocols for target crops; 2. Design and construct phenotype-specific gene vectors; 3. Produce commodity transgenic for novel flower color genes; 4. Produce commodity transplastomic for novel flower color genes; 5. Produce commodity transgenic for a daylength neutrality gene.

    SBIR Phase II 2002 Department of Agriculture
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