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72 relations: African Invertebrates, Ancient Rome, Aquaculture, Aragonite, Atlantic Ocean, Île de Ré, Bonamia ostreae, Brackish water, Brittany (administrative region), Bugeye, Calcite, Carbonate minerals, Chaillevette, Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay deadrise, Commensalism, Dredging, Eastern oyster, Ecosystem services, Endosymbiont, Estuary, Fishing dredge, Florida stone crab, France, Gathering seafood by hand, Gironde estuary, Gull, Haplosporidium nelsoni, Hong Kong, Human, Italian Peninsula, Jersey, Lau Fau Shan, Log canoe, Louisiana State University, Mariculture, Marteilia, Michael A. Rice, Morbihan, Mussel, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Ostrea angasi, Ostrea edulis, Ostrea lurida, Oyster, Oyster crab, Oyster pirate, Oystercatcher, Oystering machinery, Pacific oyster, ..., Pathogen, Perkinsus marinus, Phytoplankton, Polychaete, Prince Edward Island, Pungy, Rake (tool), Roman Britain, Sergius Orata, Sharpie (boat), Skipjack (boat), Starfish, Stingray, Sydney rock oyster, The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell, The Illustrated London News, Tide, United States Government Publishing Office, Urosalpinx cinerea, Vancouver Island University, Willapa Bay, Yerseke. Expand index (22 more) »
African Invertebrates
African Invertebrates is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers the taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, ecology, conservation, and palaeontology of Afrotropical invertebrates, whether terrestrial, freshwater, or marine.
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Ancient Rome
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.
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Aquaculture
Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae, and other organisms.
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Aragonite
Aragonite is a carbonate mineral, one of the two most common, naturally occurring, crystal forms of calcium carbonate, CaCO3 (the other forms being the minerals calcite and vaterite).
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Île de Ré
Île de Ré (variously spelled Rhé, Rhéa or Rhea; in English Isle of Rhé) is an island off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, on the northern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait.
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Bonamia ostreae
Bonamia ostreae is a parasitic Rhizaria in the phylum Haplosporidia that can cause lethal infections in shellfish, particularly the European flat oyster, Ostrea edulis.
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Brackish water
Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.
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Brittany (administrative region)
Brittany (Breizh, Bretagne) is one of the 18 regions of France.
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Bugeye
The bugeye is a type of sailboat developed in the Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging.
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Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
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Carbonate minerals
Carbonate minerals are those minerals containing the carbonate ion, CO32−.
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Chaillevette
Chaillevette is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.
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Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia.
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Chesapeake Bay deadrise
The Chesapeake Bay deadrise or deadrise workboat is a type of traditional fishing boat used in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Commensalism
Commensalism is a long term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species are neither benefited nor harmed.
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Dredging
Dredging is an excavation activity usually carried out underwater, in harbours, shallow seas or freshwater areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments to deepen or widen the sea bottom / channel.
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Eastern oyster
The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)—also called Wellfleet oyster, Atlantic oyster, Virginia oyster, or American oyster—is a species of true oyster native to the eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico coast of North America.
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Ecosystem services
Ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment and from properly-functioning ecosystems.
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Endosymbiont
An endosymbiont or endobiont is any organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism in a symbiotic relationship with the host body or cell, often but not always to mutual benefit.
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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Fishing dredge
A fishing dredge, also known as a scallop dredge or oyster dredge, is a kind of dredge which is towed along the bottom of the sea by a fishing boat in order to collect a targeted edible bottom-dwelling species.
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Florida stone crab
The Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) is a crab found in the western North Atlantic, from Connecticut to Belize, including Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, The Bahamas, and the East Coast.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Gathering seafood by hand
Gathering seafood by hand can be as easy as picking shellfish or kelp up off the beach, or doing some digging for clams or crabs, or perhaps diving under the water for abalone or lobsters.
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Gironde estuary
The Gironde is a navigable estuary (often falsely referred to as a river), in southwest France and is formed from the meeting of the rivers Dordogne and Garonne just downstream of the centre of Bordeaux.
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Gull
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.
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Haplosporidium nelsoni
Haplosporidium nelsoni is a pathogen of oysters, that originally caused oyster populations to experience high mortality rates in the 1950s, and still is quite prevalent today.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.
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Human
Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.
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Italian Peninsula
The Italian Peninsula or Apennine Peninsula (Penisola italiana, Penisola appenninica) extends from the Po Valley in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south.
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Jersey
Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (Bailliage de Jersey; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is a Crown dependency located near the coast of Normandy, France.
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Lau Fau Shan
Lau Fau Shan is an area in the New Territories of Hong Kong.
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Log canoe
The log canoe is a type of sailboat developed in the Chesapeake Bay region.
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Louisiana State University
The Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Mariculture
Mariculture is a specialized branch of aquaculture involving the cultivation of marine organisms for food and other products in the open ocean, an enclosed section of the ocean, or in tanks, ponds or raceways which are filled with seawater.
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Marteilia
Marteilia is a protozoan genus of organisms that are parasites of bivalves.
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Michael A. Rice
Michael Alan Rice, (born March 4, 1955) is an American professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island and former state representative from South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
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Morbihan
Morbihan (Mor-Bihan) is a department in Brittany, situated in the northwest of France.
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Mussel
Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.
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Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is the primary television and radio public broadcasting network for most of the U.S. state of Oregon as well as southern Washington.
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Ostrea angasi
The southern mud oyster, Australian flat oyster, native flat oyster, or angasi oyster (Ostrea angasi), is endemic to southern Australia, ranging from Western Australia to southeast New South Wales and around Tasmania.
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Ostrea edulis
Ostrea edulis is a species of oyster native to Europe and commonly known as the European flat oyster, Colchester native oyster (hence Colchester natives), mud oyster, or edible oyster (despite this latter name it is not the only oyster that is edible by humans).
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Ostrea lurida
Ostrea lurida, common name the Olympia oyster, after Olympia, Washington in the Puget Sound area, is a species of edible oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae.
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Oyster
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.
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Oyster crab
The oyster crab (Zaops ostreus) is a small, whitish or translucent crab in the family Pinnotheridae.
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Oyster pirate
Oyster pirates on the Chesapeake Bay in 1884 Oyster pirate is a name given to persons who engage in the poaching of oysters.
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Oystercatcher
The oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus.
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Oystering machinery
In oyster hatcheries fewer machines are needed but the most important one is the nursery tank system that keeps the oyster larvae alive.
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Pacific oyster
The Pacific oyster, Japanese oyster, or Miyagi oyster (Magallana gigas) previously and currently also known as Crassostrea gigas, considered by part of the scientific community to be the proper denomination, an accepted alternative in.
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Pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (πάθος pathos "suffering, passion" and -γενής -genēs "producer of") or a '''germ''' in the oldest and broadest sense is anything that can produce disease; the term came into use in the 1880s.
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Perkinsus marinus
Perkinsus marinus is a species of alveolates belonging to the phylum Perkinsozoa.
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Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of oceans, seas and freshwater basin ecosystems.
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Polychaete
The Polychaeta, also known as the bristle worms or polychaetes, are a paraphyletic class of annelid worms, generally marine.
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, and several much smaller islands.
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Pungy
The pungy is a type of schooner developed in and peculiar to the Chesapeake Bay region.
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Rake (tool)
A rake (Old English raca, cognate with Dutch raak, German Rechen, from the root meaning "to scrape together," "heap up") is a broom for outside use; a horticultural implement consisting of a toothed bar fixed transversely to a handle, and used to collect leaves, hay, grass, etc., and, in gardening, for loosening the soil, light weeding and levelling, removing dead grass from lawns, and generally for purposes performed in agriculture by the harrow.
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Roman Britain
Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.
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Sergius Orata
Caius Sergius Orata (fl. c. 95 BC) was an Ancient Roman merchant and hydraulic engineer.
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Sharpie (boat)
Sharpies are a type of hard chined sailboat with a flat bottom, extremely shallow draft, centreboards and straight, flaring sides.
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Skipjack (boat)
The skipjack is a traditional fishing boat used on the Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging.
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Starfish
Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.
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Stingray
Stingrays are a group of sea rays, which are cartilaginous fish related to sharks.
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Sydney rock oyster
The Sydney rock oyster, New Zealand rock oyster, or Auckland oyster (Saccostrea glomerata), is an oyster species endemic to Australia and New Zealand.
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell is a book by Mark Kurlansky.
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The Illustrated London News
The Illustrated London News appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.
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United States Government Publishing Office
The United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) (formerly the Government Printing Office) is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States federal government.
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Urosalpinx cinerea
Urosalpinx cinerea, common name the eastern or Atlantic oyster drill, is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.
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Vancouver Island University
Vancouver Island University (abbreviated as VIU, formerly known as Malaspina University-College and before that as Malaspina College) is a Canadian public university serving Vancouver Island and coastal British Columbia.
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Willapa Bay
Willapa Bay is a bay located on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state in the United States.
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Yerseke
Yerseke (Zeelandic:ˌ) is a village situated on the southern shore of the Oosterschelde (Eastern Scheldt) estuary in the Dutch province of Zeeland.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_farming
