Animal husbandry – Entomological culture device – Egg treatment – production – or storage
Patent
1978-10-30
1980-10-07
Chamblee, Hugh R.
Animal husbandry
Entomological culture device
Egg treatment, production, or storage
A01K 6100
Patent
active
042262100
ABSTRACT:
A process for culturing abalone (phylum Mollusca, class Gastropoda, family Haliotidae); other gastropod molluscs including, but not limited to, conch (class Gastropoda; genera Strombus, Cassis, Charonia and others), Chilean "loco" (Concholepas, concholepas); sea urchins (phylum Echinodermata, class Echinoidea, order Cidaroidea) and other marine and aquatic motile benthic animals of economic and scientific importance in which larvae, when sufficiently developed to settle from swimming to crawling animals, are introduced into a bath of relatively pure water. Preconditioned settlement surfaces are provided in the bath that encourage the settling and metamorphosis processes and support life thereafter. The larvae are preferably introduced into the water in time-spaced batches, food is supplied, high quality water is supplied, waste products and unwanted detritus are continuously removed. Food may be grown in-situ and high quality water levels may be assured by photosynthesis involving exposing phytoplankton that is growing upon surfaces in the bath to artificially supplied light.
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Bevelander Gerrit
Lockwood George S.
Shultz Fred T.
Chamblee Hugh R.
Monterey Abalone Farms
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