Modelling current speed and carrying capacity in long-line blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) farms

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 304-312

  Aure, Jan ^a   Strohmeier, Tore ^a   Strand, Øivind ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Current speed; Farm design; Model; Mussel culture; Mytilus edulis; Seston

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; COASTAL WATER; CURRENT VELOCITY; ENERGY BALANCE; FEEDING; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MODELING; FJORD; FOOD SUPPLY; MUSSEL CULTURE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SESTON; SITE SELECTION; STOCKING DENSITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 33847179161     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: 13652109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2007.01669.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Asmus H. & Asmus R.M. (1993) Phytoplankton-mussel bed interactions in intertidal ecosystems. In: Bivalve Filter Feeders in Estuarine and Coastal Processes (ed. by R.F. Dame), pp. 57-84. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.
2. Bayne B.L. & Newell R.C. (1983) Physiological energetics of marine molluscs. In: The Mollusca (ed. by A.S.M. Saleuddin & K.M. Wilbur), pp. 409-515. Academic Press, London, UK.
3. Berg J.A. & Newell R.I.E. (1986) Temporal and spatial variations in the composition of seston available to the suspension feeder Crassostrea virginica. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 23, 375-386.
4. Blanco J., Zepata M. & Morono A. (1996) Some aspects of the water Low through mussel rafts. Scientia Marina 60, 275-282.
5. Cranford P.J. & Hill P.S. (1999) Seasonal variation in food utilization by the suspension-feeding bivalve molluscs Mytilus edulis and Placopecten magellanicus. Marine Ecology Progress Series 190, 223-239.
6. Dame R.F. (1996) Ecology of Marine Bivalves: An Ecosystem Approach (pp. 26-30. CRC Press, Florida, USA.
7. Dame R.F. & Prins T.C. (1998) Bivalve carrying capacity in coastal ecosystems. Aquatic Ecology 31, 409-421.
8. Dolmer P. (2000) Algal concentration procles above mussel beds. Journal of Sea Research 43, 113-119.
9. Erga S.R. (1989) The importance of external physical controls on vertical distribution of phytoplankton and primary production in fjords of western Norway. Dr Scient thesis, Department of Marine Biology, University of Bergen, Norway.
10. Figueiras F.G., Labarta U. & Fernández Reiriz M.J. (2002) Coastal upwelling, primary production and mussel growth in the Rías Baixas of Galicia. Hydrobiologia 484, 121-131.
11. Frechette M., Butman C.A. & Geyer W.R. (1989) The importance of boundary-layer Lows in supplying phytoplankton to the benthic suspension feeder, Mytilus edulis L. Limnology and Oceanography 34, 19-36.
12. Frette Ø., Erga S.R., Hamre B., Aure J. & Stamnes J.J. (2004) Seasonal variability in inherent optical properties in a western Norwegian fjord. Sarsia 89, 276-291.
13. Fuentes J., Gregorio V., Giràldez R. & Molares J. (2000) Within-raft variability of the growth rate of mussels, Mytilus galloprovincialis, cultivated in the Ría de Arousa (NW Spain). Aquaculture 189, 39-52.
14. Grant J. & Bacher C. (2001) A numerical model of Low modification induced by suspended culture in a Chinese bay. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58, 1003-1011.
15. Grant J., Dowd K., Thompson K., Emerson C. & Hatcher A. (1993) Perspectives on celd studies and related biological models of bivalve growth and carrying capacity. In: Bivalve Filter Feeders in Estuarine and Costal Ecosystem Processes NATO ASI Series (ed. by R.F. Dame), pp. 371-420. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
16. Grant J., Emerson C.W. & Cranford P.J. (1997) Sediment resuspension rates, organic matter quality, and food utilization by sea scallops. Journal of Marine Research 55, 965-994.
17. Hawkins A.J.S., James M.R., Hickman R.W., Hatton S. & Weatherhead M. (1999) Modelling of suspension-feeding and growth in the green-lipped mussel Perna canaliculus exposed to natural and experimental variations of seston availability in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. Marine Ecology Progress Series 191, 217-232.
18. Hawkins A.J.S., Duarte P., Fang J.G., Pascoe P.L., Zhang J.H., Zhang X.L. & Zhu M.Y. (2002) A functional model of responsive suspension-feeding and growth in bivalve shellfish, configured and validated for the scallop Chlamys farreri during culture in China. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 281, 13-40.
19. Incze L.S. & Lutz R.A. (1980) Mussel culture: an east coast perspective. In: Mussel Culture and Harvest: A North American Perspective (ed. by R.A. Lutz), pp. 100-140. Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
20. Incze L.S., Lutz R.A. & True E. (1981) Modelling carrying capacities for bivalve molluscs in open, suspended culture systems. Journal of World Mariculture Society 12, 143-155.
21. Karayucel S. & Karayucel I. (1998) Estimating the carrying capacity of mussel raft systems in two Scottish sea lochs. Israeli Journal of Aquaculture Bamidgeh 50, 12-16.
22. Lindahl O., Hartr R., Hernroth B., Kollberg S., Loo L.O., Olrog L., Rehnstam-Holm A.S., Svensson J., Svensson S. & Syversen U. (2005) Improving marine water quality by mussel farming: a profitable solution for Swedish society. Ambio 34, 131-138.
23. Navarro E., Iglesias J.I.P., Perez Camacho A., Labarta U. & Beiras R. (1991) The physiological energetics of mussels ( Mytilus galloprovincialis) from different cultivation rafts in Ria de Arosa (Galicia, N.W. Spain). Aquaculture 94, 197-212.
24. Noren F., Haamer J. & Lindahl O. (1999) Changes in the plankton community passing a Mytilus edulis mussel bed. Marine Ecology Progress Series 191, 187-194.
25. Paasche E. & Erga S.R. (1988) Phosphorus and nitrogen limitation of phytoplankton in the inner Oslofjord (Norway). Sarsia 73, 229-243.
26. Pilditch C.A., Grant J. & Bryan K.R. (2001) Seston supply to sea scallops (Placopecten magellanicus) in suspended culture. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58, 241-253.
27. Pitcher G.C. & Calder D. (1998) Shellfish mariculture in the Benguela System: phytoplankton and the availability of food for commercial mussels farms in Saldanha Bay, South Africa. Journal of Shellfish Research 17, 15-25.
28. Riisgård H.U. (2001) On measurements on filtration rates in bivalves - the stony road to reliable data: review and interpretation. Marine Ecology Progress Series 211, 275-291.
29. Riisgård H.U., Kittner C. & Seerup D.F. (2003) Regulation of opening state and filtration rate in filter-feeding bivalves (Cardium edule, Mytilus edulis, Mya arenaria) in response to low algal concentration. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 284, 105-127.
30. Rodhouse P.G., Roden C.M., Burnell G.M., Hensey T. & MaMahon B. (1984) Food resource, gametogenesis and growth of Mytilus edulis on the shore and in suspended culture: Killary Harbour, Ireland. Journal of the Marine Biological Association United Kingdom 64, 513-529.
31. Rosenberg R. & Loo L.-O. (1983) Energy-flow in a Mytilus edulis culture in western Sweden. Aquaculture 35, 151-161.
32. Smaal A.C. & van Stralen M.R. (1991) Average annual growth and conditions of mussels as a function of food source. Hydrobiologia 195, 179-188.
33. Soniat T.M. & Ray S.M. (1985) Relationship between possible available food and the composition, condition and reproductive state of oysters from Galveston Bay, Texas. Contributions in Marine Science 28, 109-121.
34. Streeter V.L. (1961) Handbook of fluid dynamics. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc 1961.
35. Strohmeier T., Aure J., Duinker A., Castberg T., Svardal A. & Strand Ø. (2005) Flow reduction, seston depletion, meat content and distribution of diarrhetic shellfish toxins in a long-line blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) farm. Journal of Shellfish Research 24, 15-23.
36. Winter J.E. (1978) A review on the knowledge of suspension feeding in lamellibranchiate bivalves, with special reference to artificial aquaculture systems. Aquaculture 13, 1-33.