Oyster Culture (PDF)

The oyster trade worldwide is of huge commercial importance, and
the demand for high quality oysters is rising all the time. With
wild stocks depleted, the ever-increasing multi-million dollar
oyster farming industry is serving this demand.

Oyster Culture is a thorough review of the subject,
providing a huge wealth of practical and commercially vital
information of importance to all those involved in this expanding
industry.

Based on a lifetime's work in the industry, George Matthiessen
has written a much-needed and comprehensive book covering all major
aspects of the subject. The book covers the biology, distribution,
husbandry and disease of cultured oysters and looks in detail at
recent developments in oyster culture as well as considering the
limits to oyster production. Separate chapters deal in detail with
a) oyster culture in the Far East, the Indo-Pacific Region, Western
Europe, North America and tropical areas and b) a history of
production methods by a New England-based oyster company.

This important book will be a vital tool and reference work for
all those involved in the culture of oysters, including oyster farm
managers and workers; biologists working on oysters and other
bivalve shellfish and invertebrates; regulatory personnel and all
those serving the industry, including personnel in aquaculture
equipment and feed companies. Copies of the book should also be
available in libraries of universities, research establishments and
government laboratories where aquaculture is studied or taught.

George C. Matthiessen PhD, has for 30 years been President of
Ocean Pond Corporation, Fishers Island, New York, U.S.A.