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Archive for October, 2010
New 2010! Skimz TurboMagnum ST600S – Sneak Preview
Posted: 25th October 2010 by admin in CIPS 2010, Protein Skimmer, SkimzTags: commercial protein skimmer, Protein Skimmer, Skimz, skimz protein skimmer, turbomagnum
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$45,000 Clam Shipment – MMDC
Posted: 3rd October 2010 by admin in News, VideosTags: ICOD, Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center, MMDC, MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery, Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Tridacna derasa clam
During the week of November 12-17, 1987, staff and trainees from the MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery in Palau exported 3,000 captive-bred specimens of the threatened species Tridacna derasa (mean shell size 9.4 cm or 3.6 inches) to American Samoa as part of a regional reef stocking and conservation program. This video shows a team of […]
Deadly Clam Predator at MMDC
Posted: 3rd October 2010 by admin in News, VideosTags: ICOD, Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center, MMDC, MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery, Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Tridacna derasa clam
Tom Watson, Theofanes Isamu and Germance Taro examine a large “fugu” pufferfish (Tetradon stellatus) speared by a night diver in the MMDC Giant Clam Nursery in Malakal Harbor, Republic of Palau. Inside the puffer’s mouth at the time it was killed was a fragment of freshly broken shell from a 3-year-old cultured giant clam, Tridacna […]
Palau (MMDC) Clam Farming – Part 2
Posted: 3rd October 2010 by admin in News, VideosTags: ICOD, Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center, MMDC, MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery, Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Tridacna derasa clam
Palau’s MMDC (Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center), founded in the late 1960’s by James McVey of NOAA, hold’s the distinction of being the world’s first successful giant clam hatchery and ocean farm. Masashi Yamaguchi and Steve Jameson achieved successful laboratory-scale spawning and larval culture with several tridacnid clam species in Palau and Guam in the early […]
Palau (MMDC) Clam Farming – Part 1
Posted: 3rd October 2010 by admin in News, VideosTags: ICOD, Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center, MMDC, MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery, Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Tridacna derasa clam
Palau’s MMDC (Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center), founded in the late 1960’s by James McVey of NOAA, hold’s the distinction of being the world’s first successful giant clam hatchery and ocean farm. Masashi Yamaguchi and Steve Jameson achieved successful laboratory-scale spawning and larval culture with several tridacnid clam species in Palau and Guam in the early […]
Micronesia’s Clam Gardens – 8,000 Tridacna derasa
Posted: 3rd October 2010 by admin in News, VideosTags: ICOD, Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center, MMDC, MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery, Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Tridacna derasa clam
In this interview conducted in the Republic of Palau in October, 1987, Mr. John You, then Chief of the Marine Resource Office in Yap State, Federated State of Micronesia, describes a conservation program in which thousands of cultured giant clams, Tridacna derasa, were shipped from Palau and planted in clam gardens in the villages of […]
Largest Clam Farm – MMDC ocean nursery
Posted: 3rd October 2010 by admin in News, VideosTags: giant clams, MMDC, MMDC ocean nursery for giant clams, Palau Mariculture Demonstration Center, Tridacna derasa
This video presents an extended look at the MMDC ocean nursery for giant clams as it appeared in 1989. MMDC is the acronym for Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center in Koror, Palau. The facility is now (2010) called PMDC, the Palau Mariculture Demonstration Center. By 1990 the MMDC ocean nursery contained over 10,000 mature, captive-bred broodstock […]