Abstract
THE larval habits and settling behaviour of the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) have been extensively studied at the Fisheries Experiment Station Conway, Where of recent years the work of Dr. H. A. Cole and his collaborators has given greatly improved techniques for breeding and rearing on a commercial scale. The task of reviving the depleted oyster fisheries in Great Britain is proving decidedly more difficult than that of similar fisheries on the other side of the Atlantic, where the American oyster (Gryphtza virginica) has proved more amenable to cultivation. The work at Conway now takes a further step forward with the publication by Dr. Cole and Mr. E. W. Knight Jones of the results of their investigations from 1939 onwards*.
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Settling Behaviour of the Oyster Larva. Nature 164, 1085 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641085a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1641085a0