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Breeding Greenshell mussels for thermotolerance
25 September, 2025
Greenshell™ mussels Perna canaliculus on a farm long-line. Building the foundations for breeding thermally resilient mussels Warming waters around New…
Identifying environmental drivers of greenlipped mussel spat performance: A project by the Ahumoana o Aotearoa Spat Research Collective
8 November, 2024
The Ahumoana o Aotearoa Spat Research Collective (AASRC) is an industry-led initiative that aims to bring stakeholders and researchers together…
Explore pāua science in our living lab
30 September, 2024
One of the ways we are trying to communicate our science to the public is via a portable “living lab”…
Harmful algal blooms and shellfish
23 September, 2024
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are a known and well-managed risk to seafood safety and human health, with extensive monitoring and…
Could marine pollutants and climate change be driving the decline in mussel settlement in the Marlborough Sounds?
16 September, 2024
Summer die-offs of spat of Greenshell™ mussel/kūtai/green-lipped mussel (Perna canaliculus) and a severe decline in wild spat settlement have been…
Integrated pest management for bivalve aquaculture
9 September, 2024
Pests pose a significant challenge to the continued productivity, profitability, and sustainability of aquaculture. There has been a lot of…
Discover NZ Geoduck – an aquaculture treasure
2 September, 2024
The origins of the ShARP platform lie in the pioneering work over two decades to domesticate the native green-lipped mussel,…
What do we mean by “shellfish stress”?
30 August, 2024
What do we mean by shellfish stress? All living creatures experience stresses in different ways as part of normal living.…
Advancing aquaculture through selective breeding
26 August, 2024
Above, Cawthron Geneticist Dr Megan Scholtens and Research Assistant Dr Jordan Elvy perform crosses for selective breeding of Pacific oysters…