Animal husbandry – Aquatic animal culturing – Mollusk culturing
Patent
1993-02-12
1995-07-04
Manahan, Todd E.
Animal husbandry
Aquatic animal culturing
Mollusk culturing
119240, A01K 6100
Patent
active
054290740
ABSTRACT:
An oyster cultivating apparatus 10 is provided including a first cylindrically shaped elongated member 12 having an open area 14 extending therethrough and a first plurality of openings 16 formed thereabout. An upper member 20 is provided to cover an upper portion of the first elongated member 12 and a base member 24 is provided to cover a lowermost portion of the first elongated member. A second cylindrically shaped elongated member 38 having an open area 40 extending therethrough and having a second plurality of openings 44 formed thereabout, which are smaller than the first plurality of openings 16, is provided to be aligned in the first elongated member 12 so that the second plurality of openings 44 are in direct alignment with the first plurality of openings 16. A buoyant member 46 is alignable in the first and second elongated members 12 and 38 so that the first and second elongated members can be maintained in water 50 in a substantially horizontal position a predetermined distance above a water floor surface 52 when oysters 54 are being cultivated.
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Nelson Benjamin H.
Nelson Eddie
Baugh Kenneth D.
Manahan Todd #E.
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