Molluscs

Mariculture of tropical sea cucumbers is promising, but the nursery rearing of juveniles is a bottleneck for farming and sea ranching. Steven W. Purcell and Natacha S. Agudo conducted four medium-scale experiments lasting 36 weeks, using thousands of cultured …

David D. Kuhn et al Viginia Tech, have evaluated oysters cultured in a recirculating aquaculture system with zero water exchange for several months. Survival rates exceeded 99 per cent, and the oysters had growth comparable to or higher than oysters of similar…