Aquaculture 2025

March 6 - 10, 2025

New Orleans, Louisiana USA

Add To Calendar 10/03/2025 09:00:0010/03/2025 09:20:00America/ChicagoAquaculture 2025HIGH-SPEED IMAGING IN AQUACULTURE: APPLICATIONS OF FLOW IMAGING MICROSCOPY IN SHELLFISH HATCHERIESBalcony JThe World Aquaculture Societyjohnc@was.orgfalseDD/MM/YYYYanrl65yqlzh3g1q0dme13067

HIGH-SPEED IMAGING IN AQUACULTURE: APPLICATIONS OF FLOW IMAGING MICROSCOPY IN SHELLFISH HATCHERIES

Savannah Stresser*, Brian Beal, Tessa Houston, David Veilleux

 

Yokogawa Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc.

200 Enterprise Dr

Scarborough, ME 04074

savannah.stresser@fluidimaging.com

 



Microscopy is a daily ritual in most shellfish aquaculture facilities: counting and measuring organisms and investigating quality are critical to success. However, this can take hours each day, and results may vary dramatically between operators. Other techniques have since been developed for counting phytoplankton and are now being utilized by hatcheries to speed up and tighten up their daily microscopy tasks. One such technique, flow imaging microscopy, utilizes high-speed imaging to automatically image, count, and measure organisms as they flow past a camera. In this presentation, we will demonstrate how flow imaging microscopy is used for a variety of organisms (e.g. microalgae, oysters, mussels, clams) at multiple points in their development (e.g. fertilization and larval development) in research-forward shellfish hatcheries. This presentation will cover methodologies used for counting, measuring & classifying organisms of interest using flow imaging microscopy and associated data used for hatchery operations.