Russian scientists managed to grow Pacific oysters

If wild rapana or mussel are well-known seafood for the Black Sea coast of Crimea, then people started talking about the oyster as a food crop only in the last five years. But during this time, the results of cultivation, as they say, are obvious: from the traditional Black Sea to the giant Pacific. The Sevastopol Research Institute has been observing oysters since Soviet times. A delicious mollusk and a gourmet himself: in order to grow one variety of oysters, you need a varied menu - about a dozen varieties of microalgae. And here several laboratories are dedicated to marine plants. “Only depending on the stage of development of the larvae, we use different feed compositions. In the early stages, small algae from three to five microns are required, and when the larva melts, the size of the algae also increases,” explained Lyudmila Ladygina, Candidate of Biological Sciences, senior researcher at InBYuM. “Our task is now to obtain a breeding stock of our oysters, from which we can ...