Subject: Re: Spiralina

From: [email-masked] (Seachum)
Date: 23 Mar 1996 21:06:01 -0500

Do you mean Spirulina, the blue-green alga?  Why did you choose this
genus?  I did some work with the relative nutritional values of various
species of marine phytoplankton as food in aquaculture studies at Oregon
State and found that, in general, the Cyanophyta aren't highly nutritious.
 Diatom species, some dinoflagellates, and some Cryptomonads had much
higher nutritional values.  I am really interested in what you are
proposing to do.  I am a fisheries biologist in Florida.

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From: "R. Colby" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 17:27:46 -0800

Dear Seachum
You are certainly right about the nutritional values not found in blue
green alga. One would guess that you would want the highest protien values
you could get from marine phytoplankton and stay away from spriulina if
you were to make a buck. I think that using Spirulina as a meal for
domesticating the whales and all other small fish species all at the same
time. They would all be drawn to the feeding areas. First to grow the
Spirulina at a high altitudes with the aid of pumping in large amounts of
salt water and then letting the alga grow as it only would and harvest the
crop to be used to dump into designated whale migrating areas. We could
monitor the migrations of Gray whales, start feeding these areas with this
low grade alga thus developing a cause and effect that would in turn allow
in this case the Makah indians to select the few whales needed for their
hunting season. Where to grow all this? I would like to think that we
would be able to work this out with another Eastern Washington tribe. The
areas in eastern state are high alltitude and flat, and are within the
groups of confederated indian tribes. It would seem that between indians
there would be a commitment to strive to keep our ancestors customs.
Get back to me again.
Ray

On 23 Mar 1996, Seachum wrote:

> Date: 23 Mar 1996 21:06:01 -0500
> From: Seachum <[email-masked]>
> Newsgroups: sci.bio.fisheries
> Subject: Re: Spiralina
>