Mariculture - Page 2
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Innovative Aquaculture
Products facilities at
Lasqueti Island, near
the City of Nanaimo,
Vancouver Island,
  British Columbia,
  Canada.  Photos taken
  in July 2004 and July
  2005 during field trips
  from O.C.C.'s Rabbit
  Island facility.
Covered outdoor ponds
  (at right) are used for
  growing large quantities of
  unicellular algae used as a
  food source for clams,
  oysters, mussels, and pinto
  abalone grown at this sea
  farming facility.
Gordon Jones (left) - one of the owners
  of Innovative Aquaculture Products -
  holds strand of "plastic" seaweed used
  to planktonic oyster larve as they begin
  to settle out from the plankton. Below
  is a photo taken by Lauren Hoxies of
  oyster larvae in plankton samples.
Gordon Jones holds adult
  oyster grown at Innovative
  Aquaculture Products for
  students to look at.  This
  gourmet oyster will be used
  as brood stock for another
  generation of oyster to come.