Salt Lake Artemia

Several conditions affect the availability of the egg from year to year.

Salt lake artemia.

The cooperative was formed in 2006 when sixteen harvest companies joined together to create the great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative inc. Great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative gsl artemia. When the salinity falls below 5 the egg becomes less buoyant and is difficult to harvest. Great salt lake artemia is building upon the tradition of quality dependability and nutrition that is synonomous with artemia from great salt lake.

Freezer storage is not necessary unless you intend on holding artemia for more than 6 months. We recommend that all bio marine brand artemia be kept in a cool dry place during transport and receiving. Taxonomy distribution and conservation artemia salina was first described as cancer salinus by carl linnaeus in his systema naturae in 1758. Great salt lake artemia gsla officially known as great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative inc is a group of member companies working together to produce the world s finest artemia products from the world s greatest artemia source great salt lake.

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. Even artemia kept under cool dry conditions will begin to vary its hatch within 3 to 5 over the course of 6 12 months. Brine shrimp eggs gsl from utah u s a. 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.

The brine shrimp artemia franciscana thrives here regardless of the salty water and fluctuating water temperatures. The cooperative excels at harvesting and processing artemia cysts directly from the world s best source great salt lake and its lakeshore. 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. 66 89 122 5888.

Great salt lake brine shrimp cooperative gsl artemia. 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. The ability of the artemia to produce dormant eggs known as cysts has led to extensive use of artemia in aquaculture. Artemia occurs in vast numbers in the great salt lake where it is commercially important.

Salt lake brine shrimp. However nowadays it is believed that the brine shrimp of this lake is another species a. Salinity also affects the algae in the lake which the brine shrimp feed on. Artemia cysts great salt lake u s a.