Molluscs

Throughout much of the UK wild stocks of the native flat oyster, Ostrea edulis, are severely depleted as a result of two centuries of overexploitation, pests, disease, pollution and harsh winters and are now considered rare enough to have a Species Action Plan…

Cultivation of the American cupped oyster is generally labour-intensive, although mechanical systems are coming into play. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations explains how the different systems of production work.

Carrying and assimilative capacity of theenvironment is fundamental to the extent towhich aquaculture can develop sustainably, writes Mark James, FRM Ltd, in a CEFAS Shellfish News publication.

The island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, is recognized by the government of Indonesia as a major area for development of mariculture, reports La Ode M. Aslan, Hotman Hutauruk, Armen Zulham, Irwan Effendy, Mhummaed Atid, Michael Phillips, Lars Olsen, Brendan Larkin, …

An FIFG funded study on behalf of Seafishinvestigating issues surrounding Pacific oystercultivation and ways of mitigating potentialimpacts on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) hasrecently been completed, writes Martin Syvret, Aquafish Solutions Ltd. This feature …

The UK Shellfish Industry Development Strategy(SIDS), the Seafish-funded, SAGB-facilitatedproject looking to sustainably develop wildcaughtand cultivated shellfisheries, has beenprogressing for over a year now. Tom Pickerell, in this CEFAS Shellfish News publi…

In May this year Australia's abalone farmers took an international lead role in developing environmental sustainability practices among the rapidly expanding global aquaculture industries, writes Dr Ann Fleming, Chair, Australian Abalone Growers Association.

Increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide drive accompanying changes in the marine carbonate system as carbon dioxide enters seawater and alters ocean pH. As such changes do not occur in isolation, and other environmental factors have the potential to modulate t…

Low oxygen zones in coastal and open ocean ecosystems have expanded in recent decades, a trend that will accelerate with climatic warming. Christopher J. Gobler et al, Stony Brook University, US, experimentally assessed the consequences of hypoxic and acidifie…