Oyster Culture

Oyster farming is a highly commercially important business across many world regions including North America, the Far East, Western Europe and the Indo-Pacific region. Although oysters are seen as a luxury food and command high prices they are now available in most good seafood restaurants across the globe. This important new book provides comprehensive coverage of all major oyster culture techniques in use throughout the world and contains a huge wealth of information on history, production, diseases and development in culture systems. It is a vital manual and reference for all those involved in this multi-billion dollar industry.

By G. Matthiessen
Hardbound, 256 pages
2000