Science Centres: Fisheries

NIWA has begun commercial production of Pacific oyster spat at Bream Bay. In fact, the latest larval production run was so successful we had to cull spat down to 5 million until we expand our nursery capacity.

Until recently, our oyster facility has been designed specifically for research. We have used batches of spat for experiments looking at settlement on artificial growing substrates. We plan to continue that research in future, alongside the commercial supply.