A hatchery expands to help restore bay scallop, Argopecten irradians,populations and fisheries in New York

摘要

The near total collapse of bay scallop populations and the historic fishery it supported, on Eastern Long Island, New York has prompted funding of a large scale restoration program. This four year effort will require raising production levels from 1 million to 10-20 million animals, annually. Although the hatchery has been in operation since 1991, this project will necessitate considerable expansion of all aspects of production. The hatchery has been using batch algae culture for many years, however, to meet the demands of our restoration project, a continuous algal production system was put in place. A Seasalter Continuous Algal Production Systems (SeaCAPS), system was installed to provide the volume of algae needed to increase the hatchery's production. This system was chosen because it could provide not only the volume needed for the project, but also a constant supply of higher quality algae compared to the batch culture system.