Bivalve mollusc aquaculture constitutes the most valuable aquaculture industry among Pacific island countries, however it is for round pearl production from blacklip oyster Pinctada margeritifera. Large-scale commercialised fisheries or aquaculture production and export of molluscs for food is...

Aquaculture industries have the capacity to produce positive ecosystem service benefits, such as the provision of habitat to wild animals. Oyster cultivation is the oldest and largest aquaculture industry in south-eastern Australia. Oyster spat are grown to marketable size in rack-and-rail...

This work contains proceedings on the aetiology, epidemiology, prevalence, distribution, transmission, treatment, prevention and control of fish, shrimp, amphibian and mollusc diseases in the Asia-Pacific region.

In a field experiment, Tasmanian blue mussels (Mytilus planulatus) were cultured within an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) farm in North West Bay (NWB), Tasmania to test if enhanced mussel performance and reduced organic enrichment resulted from integrated mussel-salmon culture. The performance of ...

Mollusc farming is the third most productive aquaculture activity in the world, and the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) is one of the most important farmed species. Since 2008, mass mortalities in C. gigas due to ostreid herpesvirus 1 microvariants have challenged the viability of this industry...

Marine fish culture is a new farming opportunity for NSW prawn farmers. To address current seed-stock supply issues two Palmers Island brackish-water prawn hatcheries (of Australian and Taiwanese design) were examined for conversion to mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) production. Both hatcheries...

Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) has caused mass mortalities in Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. While aquaculture-associated movements of infected Pacific oysters are a well-known cause of OsHV-1 spread once established in a region, translocation via...

In order to explore the changes of nutrients in the fertilized eggs of Australian freshwater lobster during development, the fertilized eggs in the egg-nauplius stage, the embryo with eye pigment forming stage, the prepare-hatchling stage and newly hatched shrimp were systematically analyzed in...

Shellfish, in particular bivalves, are an often-overlooked source of vitamin B₁₂ (B₁₂) in the human diet although they have significantly higher tissue levels of B₁₂ than other animal meat or fish sources, including all vertebrates. However, the origins and key metabolic processes involving B₁₂ in...

Mollusc culture, particularly the cultivation of pearl oysters, is an important component of the aquaculture industry in Western Australia. As a result, there has been a long-term investment in surveys of commercial mollusc species for potential diseases of concern. A number of pathogens,...