Sentence examples for shellfish grow from inspiring English sources

A typical upweller is like a floating raft, 8 by 20 feet, with silo-like tubes inside of which young shellfish grow.

Saltwater aquaculture has been largely limited to shellfish grown in state waters.

Asked about the clams, Lawrence Ragonese, a spokesman for the environmental department, said, "Just because there are naturally occurring shellfish growing here doesn't mean you can purposely grow more of them".

This paper describes the development and application of an integrated framework for determination of sustainable carrying capacity in shellfish growing areas.

We also examined issues of water quality and pressures from bottom harvesting and aquaculture by calculating the estuary area within approved and conditionally approved shellfish growing areas using data from the 1995 National Shellfish Register.

Data were apportioned to individual Puget Sound Partnership (PSP) action areas by intersecting these with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and Department of Health 2010 approved commercial shellfish growing areas using the ArcGIS 9 Intersect tool.

WDOH is now equipped with this instrumentation and received FDA training in chemical methods for DSP toxins, which allows local monitoring of >40 shellfish growing areas on a regular basis.

They would use a floating nursery system known as an upweller, where shellfish can grow to about 12 millimeters for clams and an inch for oysters.

Ms. Tosti, a native of Rome, is on intimate terms with the spiny shellfish: she grew up yanking them off rocks on hot summer days.

In October, when the shellfish have grown to edible size -- over one inch -- 50percentt are returned to the marine center, which releases them into town waters to increase the local shellfish population.

Regulations for Escherichia coli counts in shellfish-growing waters (United States) or shellfish meat (European Community) have failed to protect consumers because most shellfish-associated gastroenteritis outbreaks have a viral origin (4 ).