First data on aquaculture of the Tripletail , Lobotes surinamensis , a promising candidate species for U.S. marine aquaculture

The authors wish to thank Chelsie Smith, Chelsie Money and staff from the Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Cen-ter for assistance with spawning and larval culture trials and husbandry of stocks, and C.S. Lee and Jason Hide forgreatly appreciated contributions to early spawning trials. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources(Tidelands Trust Funds Program award #S-09-USM/GCRL-M201-13-01), NOAA and the Gulf States Marine Fisher-ies Commission (award #NA15NMF4720399, sub-award #ACQ-210-039-2020-USM2) and Perciformes Group LLCare acknowledged for funding support.