During the northwest monsoon (NWM), southerly flow off the Natuna Islands appeared as the extension of the turning Vietnam coastal jet, known as Natuna off-shelf current (NOC). NOC is generated by the interaction of wind stress and the North Natuna Sea’s bottom topography. The purposes of the present study is to investigate the vertical variability of NOC and its relation to El Niňo Southern Oscillation (ENSO) using Marine Copernicus reanalysis data. The vertical variability refers to the spatial distribution of NOC pattern at the surface layer, thermocline layer, and deep/bottom layer. in 2014 as representative of normal ENSO condition. To investigate the effect of ENSO, the spatial distribution of NOC in 2011 and 2016 were compared which represent the La Niňa and El Niňo conditions, respectively. The results show that NOC starts to generate at the southeast monsoon season to the transition I season and peaks in the northwest monsoon season. The occurrence of NOC is identified at all depth layers with the weakened NOC at the deep layer. Related to the ENSO effect, La Niňa tends to strengthen NOC while El Niňo tends to weaken NOC. These are releted with the strengthening and weakening northerly wind speed during La Niňa and El Niňo, Respectively. During La Niňa events, the NOC occurs more frequently than during El Niňo. Thus, beside affecting the magnitude of NOC, ENSO also influence the frequency occurrence of NOC.
Artemia sp. is a natural food with high protein content, especially amino acid. Nowadays, Indonesia still relies on import for its supply. Hence, the utilization of local Artemia sp. as an alternative to the imported product is recommended as it contains more protein and less expensive. The advantages of local Artemia sp. is its better crystal quality as it is still fresh. It also provides better income for salt farmers because waste water from salt farm can be used to culture Artemia sp.. This research is aimed at determining the quality of locally-produced Artemia sp., by evaluation of its essential amino acid and fatty acid profiles after treatments. Our results indicated that Artemia sp. cysts with good quality were produced after 8 hours and Artemia sp. reaches a hatching rate of 1,320,000 cysts (95%) after 27 hours. We also found an indication that the best feed concentration was a mix of 60% Chaetoceros calcitrans with 40% Skeletonema costatum. Fatty acid profile analyses showed that the highest SAFA (12.86%) and PUFA (29.91%) were gained after feeding with Chaetoceros calcitrans, whereas the highest HUFA (4.93%) was gained after feeding with Skeletonemacostatum. Essential amino acid profile analyses revealed the highest content of amino acid (18912.62 ppm) was after feeding with a combination of Chaetoceros calcitrans and Skeletonema costatum. Finally, the proper water quality during research was at 25-30 o C of temperature, 30-31 ppt of salinity, pH 7.8-8.9, and DO was at 3.0-4.4 mg/L.
Phronima sp. is a natural feed with high nutrient content, and it can be an alternative substitute for Artemia. The existence of probiotic bacteria in culture media aims to improve water quality through biodegradation, maintain microbial balance and control pathogenic bacteria, so that nutrients in culture media can be utilized by Phronima sp. This study aimed to determine the effect of fermented organic fertilizer by probiotic bacteria in mass culture media on the population density, biomass production and nutrient content of Phronima sp. and to find the best culture media composition for mass culture of Phronima sp. The study was conducted with a completely randomized design with five treatments and three replications. The treatments were as follows: A: 0% chicken manure, 50% rice bran, 50% tofu waste; B: 25% chicken manure, 37.5% rice bran, 37.5% tofu waste; C: 50% chicken manure, 25% rice bran, 25% tofu waste; D: 75% chicken manure, 12.5% rice bran, 12.5% tofu waste and E: 100% chicken manure. The test animals were Phronima sp., and during cultivation, fertilization was carried out every 3 days. Population density and biomass were observed, and proximate analysis, amino acid profile analysis and fatty acid profile analysis were performed. The highest population density was at treatment B, with a peak population of 98 individuals/L that occurred on the 16th day of maintenance culture, and the highest biomass of 0.51 g was at the same treatment. The highest nutrient content was obtained at treatment B, for which the highest protein proximate analysis value was 58.90%, the proportion of the fatty acids comprised of eicosapentaenoic acid was 7.53%, and lysine amino acids were found at 44.16 ppm.
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