Science Centres: Fisheries

NIWA-reared oysters have won top honours from the New Zealand oyster farming industry. The best stick of oysters at the annual industry awards came from a joint project between NIWA and a group of leading oyster farmers wishing to settle hatchery reared oysters on to grow out sticks. Parua Bay Oysters on-grew the oysters that were settled in the hatchery at the Bream Bay Aquaculture Park and entered the sticks into the awards. The success of the research has encouraged NIWA to attempt to scale up the new seed production technology together with industry partners.