This manual is intended as a guide for the daily production of a few million A. tonsa
nauplii for feeding to marine vertebrates and invertebrates. This scale of production is
greater than most research would require, but smaller than commercial production,
hence the term meso-scale production. This manual will briefly describe the biology of
Acartia tonsa Dana that is relevant to culture, the culture methodology for meso-scale
production of their eggs and nauplii, the system components utilized in production, and
how to construct a few simple tools useful for this scale of production. Commercial
production of copepods requires much greater feed production than is described, or the
development of an efficient artificial feed, and, therefore, is not the focus of this
manual. (PDF conatains 29 pages.
