SBIR Phase I: A new sustainable crustacean bait.

SBIR 第一阶段：一种新的可持续甲壳类诱饵。

• 批准号: 1447431
• 负责人: Anthony Dellinger
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: Kepley Biosystems Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1447431&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; new; sustainable; crustacean

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is a convenient, sustainable, cost effective, and environmentally friendly crustacean bait for novice and professional fishermen worldwide. The novel crustacean fishing bait is completely safe, synthetic, and comprised of the chemical cues released from traditional rotting fish bait. The scent cues release at a tunable rate to provide optimal fishing outcomes. Given the rising cost of fish due to competition with omega-3 pill producers, the labor costs associated with obtaining bait, and the space bait takes up on a fishermen?s boat the new bait will save fishermen time, money, and inconvenience. The societal benefit that stems from the proposed product is likely the dramatic reduction in fish being removed from the ocean for use as crustacean attractants. Currently amount of fish removed from the ocean for bait is estimated to be over 18 million tons, and is significantly disruptive to the oceanic food web. The proposed bait will also reduce unwanted capture and killing of by-catch (e.g. sea turtles, dolphins, and seals) by lessening the need for indiscriminate drift nets they get caught in. Commercially, the product will save fishermen money estimated at over $1,000 per ton of crustaceans. The objectives of this Phase I research project are to identify those molecules that are given off from current baits, incorporating newly identified (and identified but not yet tested) compounds into a formulated bait prototype product, optimizing the attractant release kinetics, and testing the ability to catch target species. Bait formulations will be evaluated by fishermen on several crustaceans to establish efficacy. It is anticipated that this research will help address the ongoing ecological destruction associated with over-fishing and ocean by-catch. Further, the crustacean industry is struggling with questions about bait sustainability which driven by state and federal regulatory pressures on fishing that could impact conventional bait supply and resulting in higher prices of conventional crustacean bait. These circumstances present an ecological and commercial opportunity for a new baiting alternative. The proposed bait product being developed in this project will help lessen the aforementioned problems by reducing the need to capture bait fish to create crustacean bait, as well as saving fishermen money. The intellectual merit of the proposed activity will be the identification of the chemical cues given off from fish/mammals that most intensely attract all species of crustaceans as well as developing a fine-tuned matrix for releasing these attractants at a dissolution rate desired by fishermen under variable fishing conditions.

这个小型企业创新研究阶段I项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是全球新手和专业渔民的方便，可持续，具有成本效益和环保的甲壳类动物。新型的甲壳类捕鱼诱饵是完全安全的，合成的，由传统腐烂的鱼类诱饵释放的化学提示组成。气味提示以可调速度释放，以提供最佳的捕鱼结果。鉴于由于与Omega-3药丸生产商的竞争，鱼的成本上升，与获取诱饵有关的人工成本以及太空诱饵占用了渔民的船只，新诱饵将为渔民时间，金钱和不便节省。拟议产品所带来的社会利益可能是从海洋中移走的鱼类急剧减少，以用作甲壳类动物的吸引剂。目前，从海洋中取出的鱼类数量估计超过1800万吨，并且对海洋食品网络严重破坏。拟议的诱饵还将通过减少对被吸引的不加区分地区的漂移网的需求来减少对副捕获和杀死的捕获和杀死。 该阶段研究项目的目标是确定那些从当前诱饵中脱离的分子，将新鉴定（并鉴定但尚未测试）化合物纳入配方的诱饵原型产物中，优化吸引人释放动力学，并测试捕获目标物种的能力。渔民将在几个甲壳类动物上评估诱饵制剂以确立功效。 可以预料，这项研究将有助于解决与过度捕获和海洋征收有关的持续的生态破坏。此外，甲壳类行业正在努力解决有关诱饵可持续性的问题，这是由于州和联邦法规对捕鱼的压力的驱动，这可能会影响传统的诱饵供应，并导致传统甲壳类动物的价格上涨。这些情况为新的诱饵替代方案提供了生态和商业机会。该项目中正在开发的拟议的诱饵产品将通过减少捕获诱饵鱼来制造甲壳类诱饵并节省渔民钱的需求来帮助减少上述问题。拟议活动的智力优点将是从鱼/哺乳动物中脱离的化学提示，这些化学线索最能吸引所有种类的甲壳类动物，并开发一个微调的基质，以在可变捕鱼条件下以渔民期望的溶解速率释放这些吸引者。