Getting Artemia preparation wrong costs hatcheries in survival rates, wasted cysts, and feed bills. At Partnerships to Practice: An Artemia Workshop, held at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, industry, government, and researchers validated a new set of hatchery good-practice tools: SOP sheets, checklists, and demonstration videos covering Artemia biosecurity, enrichment, and biomass production in hatchery environments.

Delegates also discussed building a global inventory of Artemia genetic resources tracking genetic and nutritional characteristics, hatching rates and strain performance to help hatcheries pick the right strain for their systems instead of relying on guesswork. The goal of the practices, based on the FAO Manual on Artemia Production and Use, are to optimise yield and reduce wastage of expensive Artemia resources, and to provide instruction on cold storage, enrichment, and biosecurity on the hatchery floor.