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Experimental Culture And Particle Filtration By Asian Moon Scallops, Amusium Pleuronectes, Michael A. Rice, Robert B. Rheault, Miguel S. Perez, Vicente S. Perez Sep 1994

Experimental Culture And Particle Filtration By Asian Moon Scallops, Amusium Pleuronectes, Michael A. Rice, Robert B. Rheault, Miguel S. Perez, Vicente S. Perez

Michael A Rice

Growth rates were determined for scallops (35-75 mm valve height) held in pocket nets and lantern nets at varying densities. The Ford-Walford linear transformation of the von Bertalanffy growth equation was used to allow quantification of food-limited stunting. Pocket nets allowed for greater growth of scallops than did the lantern nets at all stocking densities. The growth rates of scallops in pocket nets, nevertheless, were well below the growth of scallops in the wild. Clearance rates of Caribbean strains of Isochrysis galbana (C-ISO) and Chaetocerous gracilus (C-Cg) were determined for moon scallops. Amusin pleuronectes, in static chambers at 28ºC. The …


The Effects Of Copper, Cadmium And Zinc On Particle Filtration And Uptake Of Glycine In The Pacific Oyster Crassostrea Gigas, Wenyu Lin, Michael A. Rice, Paul K. Chien Dec 1991

The Effects Of Copper, Cadmium And Zinc On Particle Filtration And Uptake Of Glycine In The Pacific Oyster Crassostrea Gigas, Wenyu Lin, Michael A. Rice, Paul K. Chien

Michael A Rice

1. The filtration rate (volume of water completely cleared of collodial carbon per unit time) by control oysters is 36.60 ml/g hr ± 7.68 (sd).2. Filtration rates decrease with increasing concentrations of Cd2+ and Zn2+.3. In 8–16 mg/l Cu2+, filtration rates are significantly higher than the control, but in Cu2+ concentrations above 32 mg/l, filtration rates are lower than controls.4. Influx of 14C-glycine is characterized by Michaelis-Menten kinetics with Jmax and Kt values of 1.85 ± 0.097 μmol/g hr and 33.7 ± 4.6 μM respectively.5. The uptake rate of glycine from 1 μM solution is 37.79 μmol/g hr.6. In order …