“…Different environmental factors have been shown to influence growth rate in abalone, including water temperature (Kelly & Owen ; Searle, Roberts & Lokman ), amount and quality of food (Nidoo, Manveldt, Ruck & Bolton ; Cho & Kim ), stocking density (Capinpin, Toledo, Encena & Doi ; Wu, Liu, Zhang & Wang ), oxygen concentration (Harris, Maguire, Edwards & Johns ), dissolved ammonia (Harris, Maguire, Edwards & Hindrum ), stress conditions (Hooper, Day, Slocombe, Handlinger & Benkendorff ), and combinations of some of those factors (Tung & Alfaro ). In red abalone, growth rate has been related with water temperature, food availability and diseases, like withering syndrome (González, Brokordt & Lohrmann ), and the interaction among these factors (Braid, Moore, Robbins, Hedrick, Tjeerdema & Friedman ). Jónasson et al .…”