Oysters - Shellfish Farming

Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 274-286

  Laing, I ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bivalve; Crassostrea; Cultch; Cultivation; Farming; Food; Gigas; Hatchery; Juveniles; Larvae; Mollusk; On growing; Ostrea; Oyster; Seed; Spat; Stock

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868150430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012374473-9.00756-6     Document Type: Chapter

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11. Cefas is the EU community reference laboratory for bacteriological and viral contamination of oysters. http://www.crlcefas.org.
12. Definitive information on oyster diseases can be found on the website of The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). http://www.oie.int.
13. Further information on diseases can be found on the Fisheries and Oceans Canada website. http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca.
14. The online magazine 'Shellfish News', although produced primarily for the UK industry, has articles of general interest on oyster farming. It can be found on the News/Newsletters area of the Cefas web site. A booklet on site selection for bivalve cultivation is also available at this site. http://www.cefas.co.uk.
15. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science has information on oyster genetics and breeding programs and the proposals to introduce the non-native Crassostrea ariakensis to Chesapeake Bay. http://www.vims.edu.
16. The World Aquaculture Society website has a comprehensive set of links to other relevant web sites, including many national shellfish associations. http://www.was.org.
17. There is a great deal of information on oyster farming throughout the world on the website of The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This website has statistics on oyster production, datasheets for various cultivated species, including Pacific oysters, and online manuals on the production and use of live food for aquaculture (FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 361), Hatchery culture of bivalves (FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 471) and Pearl oyster farming and pearl culture (FAO Project Report No. 8). http://www.fao.org.