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For decades now, Chesapeake Bay oysters have been ravaged by two diseases that nearly wiped them out. Dermo and MSX and the parasites that cause them are still rampant in...Daily Press 2012-10-23
Testing by Department of Primary Industries (DPI) at the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute has identified a disease associated with recent Pacific oyster...noodls 2013-01-24
University of B.C. researchers are a step closer to eradicating a parasite that has been killing oysters infected with the dreaded Denman Island disease on the west coast....Canada Dot Com 2013-07-26
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A new tool has been developed to detect low levels of the Bluff oyster killer bonamia. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and a molecular diagnostic company dnature have developed a DNA test that is more sensitive, and can detect lower levels of infection, than using a microscope. Bonamia is a microscopic disease of oysters. Although not harmful to...Scoop 2013-05-23
Eleven years after a fatal disease damaged Nova Scotia's oyster industry, a maritime delegation is travelling to the United States to learn how New England's aquaculture industry was so successfully revitalized. The aquaculture associations of both Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are leading a group of about 16 researchers, industry delegates and government officials to...CBC 2013-07-28
A state survey of oysters in Virginia waters has just wrapped up, and word is that larval oysters — called spat — are settling on reefs in massive numbers. Experts said it could bode well for the harvest in three years when those babies reach market size. "We have wonderful spat set," said Jim Wesson, oyster restoration expert with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, or...Daily Press 2012-11-10
A mysterious ailment is killing up to 80 per cent of adult oysters in shell fisheries around the French coast this summer, threatening an industry already weakened by a succession of crises. The bizarre weather – weeks of rain and cold followed by tropical temperatures – is officially blamed for the sudden death of scores of thousands of oysters in south-western France,...The Independent 2013-08-04
Maryland's depleted oyster population has more than doubled since 2010, state officials reported Wednesday, giving state scientists hope the bivalves are on track to regain a "substantial foothold" in the Chesapeake Bay after being devastated by diseases over the past 30 years. An annual fall survey by the Department of Natural Resources found that the number and size of...Baltimore Sun 2014-05-08
THE languid loops and hidden bays of the lower Hawkesbury River are a lonely and silent place these days. No longer do flat-bottomed aluminium dinghies laden with plump oysters skim its misty reaches, the cheery early morning greetings of their skippers ringing across its ebbing and flooding tides. Instead, the oyster leases are deserted; their wooden racks empty of the Pacific...The Australian 2013-07-12
Oyster season officially ends with the arrival of April 1, which is the start of blue crab season in Maryland. Many called this oyster season a success. "Harvest data suggests that harvest in this oyster season will more than double the 2011-12 season," said Mike Naylor, assistant director for the fisheries service and shellfish program director at the Department of Natural...Springfield News-Sun 2013-04-01
First attested in English 14th century, the word oyster comes from Old French oistre, in turn from Latin ostrea, the feminine form of ostreum, which is the latinisation of the Greek ὄστρεον (ostreon), "oyster". Compare ὀστέον (osteon), "bone".
True oysters are members of the family Ostreidae. This family includes the edible oysters, which mainly belong to the genera Ostrea, Crassostrea, Ostreola and Saccostrea. Examples include the Belon oyster, Eastern oyster, Olympia oyster, Pacific oyster, Sydney rock oyster, and the Wellfleet oyster.
Almost all shell-bearing mollusks can secrete pearls, yet most are not very valuable.
Pearl oysters are not closely related to true oysters, being members of a distinct family, the feathered oysters (Pteriidae). Both cultured pearls and natural pearls can be obtained from pearl oysters, though other molluscs, such as the freshwater mussels, also yield pearls of commercial value.