Scallop Farming
2. Auflage Juli 2006
328 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The scallop farming industry continues to expand, providing an
important global source of food and revenue. In recent decades
over-fishing has caused a decline in wild stocks and as consumer
demand increases, the opportunities for new and existing scallop
farming ventures are greater than ever before.
In this important new edition, experienced scallop farmer David
Hardy offers the reader:
* Practically oriented advice
* * New technical, environmental and legislative information
* * Key information for running a successful farming operation
Scallop Farming, 2nd Edition is an essential tool
for all those working in the scallop farming industry and will be
an important source of reference for equipment manufacturers and
suppliers, traders and policy makers, environmental and marine
scientists and universities and research establishments where these
areas are studied and taught.
Chapter 1 A bit of background information about the species.
Chapter 2 The farm environment and its microscopic
inhabitants.
Chapter 3 Scallop biology and ecology.
Section 2 Hands on.
Chapter 4 Choosing a site.
Chapter 5 Collecting spat.
Chapter 6 Getting underway.
Chapter 7 Methods of cultivation.
Chapter 8 Moorings.
Chapter 9 Design and manufacture of equipment.
Chapter 10 Diving work.
Section 3 Getting down to business.
Chapter 11 To collect or not to collect.
Chapter 12 Farming logistics.
Chapter 13 The business of farming.
Chapter 14 More strings to our bow.
Chapter 15 Marketing, handling and processing
only scallop farming, but also shellfish farming in general. It
provides vital intorductory information for industry newcomers, it
will no doubt expose experienced farmers to some new ideas. This
book could be a good catalyst for renewing interest in scallop
farming."
Matt Liutkus and Joanne Power, St Andrews Biological Station,
University of New Brunswick.
"...an important reference tool...provides vital
information for industry newcomers...[and] it will expose
experienced farmers to new ideas...could be a good catalyst for
renewing interest..."
Aquatic Association of Canada Newsletter
