By George C. Matthiessen
The oyster alternate all over the world is of big advertisement value, and the call for for prime quality oysters is emerging forever. With wild shares depleted, the ever-increasing multi-million greenback oyster farming is serving this call for.
Oyster Culture is an intensive evaluate of the topic, supplying an immense wealth of useful and commercially very important info of significance to all these fascinated about this increasing industry.
Based on a lifetime's paintings within the undefined, George Matthiessen has written a much-needed and complete e-book masking all significant points of the topic. The publication covers the biology, distribution, husbandry and disorder of cultured oysters and appears intimately at contemporary advancements in oyster tradition in addition to contemplating the bounds to oyster creation. Separate chapters deal intimately with a) oyster tradition within the a ways East, the Indo-Pacific quarter, Western Europe, North the US and tropical components and b) a background of construction equipment by way of a brand new England-based oyster company.
This vital ebook might be a necessary instrument and reference paintings for all these interested in the tradition of oysters, together with oyster farm managers and employees; biologists engaged on oysters and different bivalve shellfish and invertebrates; regulatory body of workers and all these serving the undefined, together with body of workers in aquaculture gear and feed businesses. Copies of the e-book must also be to be had in libraries of universities, study institutions and govt laboratories the place aquaculture is studied or taught.
George C. Matthiessen PhD, has for 30 years been President of Ocean Pond company, Fishers Island, big apple, U.S.A.
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