Physiological studies on stress and morbidity during post-harvest handling and storage of western rock lobster Panulirus cygnus. II Standard autopsy techniques and immune system competency

The project had two major aims - to develop and use the suite of laboratory tests in studies of different postharvest stressors (behavioural stressors such as physical handling or visual disturbance and environmental stressors such as air exposure) and to develop a standard autopsy method and apply this technique to a study of the causes of mortality in postharvest lobsters