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The fecundity of Ostrea edulis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

H. A. Cole
H. A. Cole
Affiliation:
Fisheries Experiment Station, Conway
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It is shown that the average number of embryos produced by a gravid oyster is approximately doubled each year until the oyster is 4 years old, when it may be regarded as adult. Estimates have been made of the quantities of embryos produced by one 1-year-old, eleven 2-year-old, fourteen 3-year-old and twenty-two adult oysters; the mean values for these year-classes are 91,600, 218,100, 462,600 and 902,900 respectively.

Since it is probable that the proportion of a population of oysters which matures in the female phase increases progressively up to the age of 4 years, it follows that adult oysters are for this reason superior to 2- or 3-year-old oysters as breeding stock, quite apart from the increased number of embryos produced by each oyster.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , November 1941 , pp. 243 - 260
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1941

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