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A - Human Necessities
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K
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A01K 61/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1319574
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A novel method is provided for the culturing of giant scallops from the egg stage to the juvenile stage under controlled conditions. The method includes the steps of (a) obtaining and feeding native scallops; (b) inducing spawning in the scallops; (c) selecting eggs surrounded by sperm in a preselected ratio of sperm/egg; (d) hatching fertilized eggs at a preselected density in shallow dishes of water, thereby providing swimming larvae; (e) removing the swimming larvae after a preselected period of time, and resuspending the larvae in deep larval tanks of selected sea water having selected food provided therein; (f) periodically removing the larvae, resuspending the removed larvae at a preselected density in larval tanks of the selected sea water and re-feeding the resuspended larvae with selected artificially-grown algae food in the sea water; (g) after a preselected period of time, allowing the larvae to settle on the bottom of the larval tanks under selected lighting conditions, and thereby become spat, while periodically changing the water in the larval tanks and feeding the larvae with artificially-grown algae food in the water in the larval tanks; (h) after a preselected period of time, brushing the spat out of the larval tanks, catching the brushed-out spat on screen trays, and replacing the spat contained on the screen trays in a culturing tank of selected water, the screen trays being stacked vertically therein; (i) periodically changing the water in the culturing tank by inflow/outflow of water and monitoring food levels in the culturing tank; and (j) after a preselected period of time, removing juvenile scallops from the culturing tank.
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Borden Ladner Gervais Llp
Seabright Corporation Limited
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