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  2. Oystering machinery - Wikipedia

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    Filters have different jobs, including making sure there is algae to feed the oyster larvae and cleaning the water to maintain a suitable environment for their growth. In addition to the nursery tank system, small boats and rafts made in Italy are used to gather oysters that cannot be reached by bare foot.

  3. Oyster farming - Wikipedia

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    Oyster farming is an aquaculture (or mariculture) practice in which oysters are bred and raised mainly for their pearls, shells and inner organ tissue, which is eaten. Oyster farming was practiced by the ancient Romans as early as the 1st century BC on the Italian peninsula [1] [2] and later in Britain for export to Rome. The French oyster ...

  4. Oyster reef restoration - Wikipedia

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    The first stage in an oyster’s life cycle is the free-swimming larval stage. After about three weeks, the larva attaches to a hard substrate—surface area to attach to—such as prop roots, dock pilings, natural rock, and other oysters becoming an oyster spat—oysters that have just settled to the bottom. [4]

  5. Pacific oyster - Wikipedia

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    Pacific oyster aquaculture production has grown from an export value of $11 million in 1986 to $32 million in 2006. [33] In 2006, the 23 Pacific oyster farms throughout New Zealand covered a total of 750 hectares of marine space and produced 2,800 tonnes of product per year. [31] Annual production is now between about 3,300 and 4,000 tonnes. [32]

  6. Magallana bilineata - Wikipedia

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    Magallana bilineata, commonly known as the Philippine cupped oyster or slipper oyster, is an economically important species of true oyster found abundantly in the western Pacific Ocean, from the Philippines to Tonga and Fiji. In 2020 an exotic population was discovered in north-east Australia. [2]

  7. Fisheries in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Territorial waters and exclusive economic zone of the Philippines. The Philippines is an archipelagic state whose over 7,000 islands [1] with their large coastal population [2]: 2 are surrounded by waters including 2,263,816 square kilometres (874,064 sq mi) of exclusive economic zone and 679,800 square kilometres (262,500 sq mi) of territorial sea, [3]: 1 of which 184,600 square kilometres ...

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  9. Oyster buy-boat - Wikipedia

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    An oyster buy-boat, also known as deck boat, is an approximately 40–90 foot long wooden boat with a large open deck which serviced oyster tongers and dredgers. Similar in function to sardine carriers , buy boats circulated among the harvesters collecting their catches, then delivered their loads to a wholesaler or oyster processing house. [ 1 ]