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Improving Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) production through selective breeding

Creator:

Evans, Sanford, 1968-

Abstract:

Shellfish growers have expressed interest in developing high-yielding oyster strains through selective breeding. This dissertation has three objectives to help determine the effects of genetic and environmental variation on production traits (body weight, survival, and yield) of Pacific oysters grown in the Pacific Northwest. Objective 1: Determine if relative family...

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Results of the 1947 experimental plantings of Kumamoto oyster seed. Special Report. Shellfish Laboratory

Creator:

Marriage, Lowell D. and Oregon. Fish Commission

Abstract:

This report details the results of experimental plantings of Pacific oysters in four Oregon estuaries in 1947. "The ten cases of experimental Kumamoto seed received in l947 through the Washington State Department of Fisheries were divided among Coos Bay, Umpqua River, Yaquina Bay and Tillamook Bay. All plantings were made...

Resource Type:

Technical Report