Is the laboratory growth of Pacific oyster spat, Crassostrea gigas, exposed to varying salinities, predictive of their growth in the estuary?

Results of this study suggest that laboratory growth of full-sib families of five month old Pacific oyster spat can be predictive of growth to market size at different grow-out sites. Seven to ten millimeter spat were selected from each of fifteen full-sib families and commercially available polyplo...

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Main Author: Brooks, Christopher
Other Authors: Langdon, Christopher J.
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1957/28555