Intermediate culture of Manila clam spat and stocking efficiency of the spats in Mangoku-ura

Fiscal Year

2013

Title

Intermediate culture of Manila clam spat and stocking efficiency of the spats in Mangoku-ura

Project and Theme

Project 1. Study on ecological succession of fisheries ground
Representative Organization: Tohoku University
Theme4. Aquaculture environment in the coastal water of Miyagi Prefecture and innovation of aquaculture system
Representative personMakoto Osada
OrganizationTohoku University
DepartmentGraduate School of Agricultural Science

Research Information

Period and Interval
2013/08/01 - 2013/12/31
Research Area
Mangoku-ura
Category
Field survey
Overview
The aim of the project is to demonstrate the efficient Manila clam seed production and to contribute to sustainable clam fishery. Mangoku-ura where formation of tideland is planed is emploied as a model of water for the experiment. The settled spats produced from adalut Manila clam of Mangoku-ura origin is introduced into the advanced system for intermediate culture in Mangoku-ura to verify an intensive and efficient production by the system. The cultured spats are stocked on the tideland by various methods to verify a high stocking efficiency. The project is conducted by the collaboration with Prefectural government, fishery cooperative and neighboring high school for fishery.

Investigation Item and Data Acquisition

Investigation ItemData Acquisition
Stocking efficiency and growth on the tidelandGrowth and settlement data of stocked spat
Monitoring of food availabilityChlorophyll a in water column and sediment
Growth in the systemGrowth data of the spat in the system

Reference

Related Observation Result
FY2013 Intermediate culture of Manila clam spat and stocking efficiency of the spats in Mangoku-ura

Person in charge of Investigation

Representative personMakoto Osada
OrganizationTohoku University
DepartmentGraduate School of Agricultural Science

Keywords

Fiscal Year2013
OrganizationTohoku University
CategoryField survey
Research AreaIshinomaki Bay
DisciplineOcean environment -> Plant pigments
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Physiology
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Mollusks
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Plankton