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The industry also suffered oyster mortalities from floods in the rivers, theft, and the lack of secure oyster bank tenure.

The history of oyster farming in Australia

The Gatesville stratigraphic section is here interpreted as one of transgression from the nonmarine sand facies of the Paluxy Formation, through the shallow marine, oyster bank facies of the Walnut Formation.

Nearshore Peruviella dolium (Roemer 1849) paleocommunity, Cretaceous (Albian) Walnut Formation, Coryell County, Texas

Seasonal changes in seawater composition were monitored fortnightly from February to September 1997 at a station facing the oyster bank (marked by * on Fig.

Summer Mortality of Crassostrea gigas (thunberg) in relation to environmental rearing conditions

gigas amongst the native species oyster banks up to 100 km south of oyster farms, in Laguna littoral (28[degrees] 30' S; 48[degrees] 40' W, southern Santa Catarina) and in South Bay (27[degrees] 46' S; 48[degrees] 34' W) of Florianopolis Island, indicating natural reproductions of this species in South Brazil.

Effects of seeding date and seed size on Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) culture in a subtropical climate

in press), monitoring of production (Mendonca and Machado, 2010), assessment of stocks in natural oyster banks of extractivism areas (Pereira et al., 2000; Pereira et al.

Multidimensional assessment of sustainability extractivism of mangrove oyster Crassostrea spp. in the estuary of Cananeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil/Avaliacao multidimensional de sustentabilidade do extrativismo da ostra de mangue Crassostrea spp. no estuario de Cananeia, Sao Paulo, Brasil

Robert Carter's book is a mine of information on the most productive oyster banks, the quantity and quality of pearls discovered there, the value of individual pearls and how this is assessed and their final destinations.

Sea of Pearls

One of the most legendary oyster banks commenced in Scandinavia, wove its way along the Atlantic coast and turned into the Mediterranean to grace the fringes of Italy and southern France before precipitously ending at Greece.

Oysters: we just can't get enough it wasn't a fluke

Vila summarizes: "It wasn't an Antillean hurricane that decimated Nueva Cadiz but rather the extermination of the oyster banks which caused collective misery and abandonment, turning Nueva Cadiz into a dead city."

Venezuela's Island of Treasures and Tragedies: the iridescent pearl played prominently in Cubagua's history and in the early years of discovery, conquest, and colonization in the Americas