Health & Welfare
In recent decades, mass summer mortality in oyster aquaculture has become widespread, with 50 percent of crops lost in a given year. Losses are often associated with spawning, which is normally seasonal but highly temperature-dependent.
Intelligence
Most of the shellfish industry in Portugal is located on the country’s southern coast, where the production is dominated by the grooved carpet shell clam, followed by Japanese and Portuguese cupped oysters, and mussels.
Intelligence
A project between an oyster hatchery and a university is working on a selective-breeding program for silver- or gold-lip pearl oysters in Indonesia.
Health & Welfare
The growing Pacific oyster culture industry in Australia is supported by cooperative research on genetic improvement and broodstock distribution.
Intelligence
A U.S. study found that high-pressure processing reduced Vibrio vulnificus levels in oysters and can help extend their shelf life.
Health & Welfare
The health of two key oyster species – the American and Pacific – is constantly under threat of parasitic infections leading to diseases MSX and dermo.