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Course code

AQUA 300

 

Course credit

1.00

 

Covers bivalve biology as it bears on production, broodstock conditioning and spawning, larval rearing, settlement and nursery culture, grow-out methods, and harvest and handling.

Larval rearing receives the greatest attention because it is where production most often fails. Survival of a few percent is normal and survival of zero occurs, frequently without an obvious cause. Intake water chemistry is treated in detail: regional hatcheries have experienced crop failures that track periods of low pH in the water drawn, and the operational decisions — when to buffer, when to close the intake and wait — are live questions rather than settled practice.

Selective breeding for tolerance is covered, together with the questions it raises about genetic diversity in wild populations.



Instructors

[Dr. Yuki Nakamura](/person/dr-yuki-nakamura)

 

 

Prerequisite

AQUA 210.



 

Terms offered

spring

 

 

Offering frequency

annually