Shellfish News - Issue No. 21, Spring 2006

• Issue No. 21, Spring 2006 (PDF, 3.5 MB)

Contents

Articles

• Cryopreservation of shellfish sperm, eggs and larvae
• Development of an optimal broodstock holding and conditioning system for hatchery
• production of the razor clam, Ensis siliqua.
• Australian shellfish systems in the UK
• Research into Pseudo-nitzschia dynamics in Scottish waters
• Bivalve cultivation in China
• D-Day III for mussel farmers!
• Seafood Vibrio study
• Seafish evaluate sodium metabisulphite alternatives
• Effect of Bio-Mos® on the growth and survival of cultured lobsters

Announcements

• News from Defra
• Saving Scottish oysters
• CONSENSUS
• Fish and shellfish surveys published
• Slow food fact-finding mission on river Fal
• Europeans prefer seafood that is environmentally responsible
• Starfish slime
• The Crown Estate review fish farm rents
• Solway cockle fishery
• Public inquiry on inshore fisheries proposals
• Exotic crab poised for widespread UK invasion
• M &S honoured for contribution to UK aquaculture industry
• Environment Agency advice online
• News from Lantra
• New online coastal atlas
• Oyster bonanza last Christmas

News from Seafish

• Composting whelk waste
• Crustacea datasheets
• Scotland Nehprops survey
• Seafish Inshore Group host Shellfisheries workshop
• Seafood Awards

News from the Trade Associations

• SAGB
• ASSG

Monitoring Reports

• The UK Bonamia & Marteilia sampling programme 2005
• The UK biotoxin monitoring reports that normally feature in the Spring issue of Shellfish News will in future appear in the Autumn issues
• Research News
• Shellfish in the Press

Information File

• Where to get help and advice
• Useful Publications