The fishing industry needs accurate ways to measure the age of animals to manage their populations better. The project shows that researchers studied the growth of receptors in crabs and lobsters to see if they could be used to determine age. They found that counting the number of receptors is only...
The Western Australian Research Laboratories began investigating the feasibility of artificially propagating the silverlip or goldlip pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima, in 1982 and culminated its study by operating a pilot-scale, seasonal hatchery at the Broome Jetty, Broome, Western Australia from 1986...
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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) WA