Fishermen collect stone cauliflower and make it into stone flower jelly after being exposed to the sun.

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[Reporter Lu Xianxiu/Report from Keelung] Northeast fish is an important production area of ​​agaric, which has high economic benefits and is also an important food and habitat for marine life. The National Museum of Marine Science and Technology cooperated with Taiwan Ocean University to successfully cultivate beautiful agaric seedlings. And it was successfully stocked in the outdoor pool. In the future, it is hoped that artificial breeding will replace wild collection and preserve the biological chain for marine life.

According to the Marine Science Museum, the large benthic seaweed community is an important food source for marine organisms in the sea area, and it is also the habitat of many marine organisms and the breeding ground for shelter, habitat, spawning, and breeding of the next generation.

But in recent years, due to global warming and the extensive collection of seaweed communities, the production has become increasingly scarce, such as the beautiful rock lily (Amansi rock lily or commonly known as Pteris in the Northeast), seaweed and centipede algae, etc., are increasingly in need of protection.

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Lin Xiumei, a professor at the Institute of Marine Biology of the Ocean University, said that the cell wall of Gemini glabra species is rich in alginate (agar), a large amount of dietary fiber, protein, polysaccharides and antioxidant active substances, which are widely used in health food, Taiwan Most of the northern coastal residents gather agaricus to make agaric jelly, which is an important economic crop. Under the circumstances of global warming and large-scale collection, they hope to replace wild collection with artificial breeding, so as to achieve a balance between economy and marine ecology.

The Haike Museum pointed out that it has cooperated with the Institute of Marine Biology of Ocean University for more than 1 year. It has successfully induced a large number of beautiful Geliflower seedlings with a small amount of reproductive spores in the indoor research field of the Haike Museum, and put the artificially cultivated seedlings into stock. In the outdoor pool, a large number of beautiful Gemnaphyllum algae were successfully cultivated.

In winter, the beautiful agaric cultivated in outdoor ponds can increase in weight by more than 50% per month, and part of the grown algae can be used as seedlings for outdoor pond cultivation after pruning.

The Haike Museum pointed out that in the future, it will study and test the algae of the genus spores directly in outdoor ponds for the cultivation of genus spores in the beautiful seaweed, and will continue to screen the seaweed populations that are well adapted to the environment, and establish key technologies for the preservation of multiple lines of seaweed. , to take care of the habitat environment and food sources of many marine organisms, and also take into account the needs of the people's economy and biotechnology and health care.

Agaric cauliflower turns off-white when dried.

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Aquamarine cultivation in the outdoor pond of Chaojing Ocean Center.

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