Open AccessURGENT PROBLEMS OF MOLLUSKAN FARMING
Author(s) -
Loosanoff Victor L.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual workshop ‐ world mariculture society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1749-7345
pISSN - 1043-5166
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-7345.1973.tb00118.x
Subject(s) - mariculture , agriculture , business , environmental planning , risk analysis (engineering) , fishery , ecology , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , geography , aquaculture
ABSTRACT The article emphasizes some of the most urgent problems facing molluskan farmers. Among them is the need for developing methods that will rapidly purify mollusks feeding on toxic forms of plankton and thus becoming toxic themselves. Better understanding of the physiology of nutrition with commercial mollusks, and development and a broad use of specially prepared foods are other urgent problems to be solved. Studies of epizootics and devising means for their control is also an important field that should be enlarged on an international basis. Questions of radical changes in laws referring to mariculture, and the need for training of future mariculturists are briefly discussed in the article.