Recent trends in oyster culture in India

Rack and tray method of culture of the oyster Crassostrea madrasensis has been developed initially at Tuticorin and oysters have been cultured successfully Recently Innovations have been made in the methods of collection of oyster spat end techniques of rearing them. The development Of hatchery techniques for 1arge.scale production of oyster seed has led to reorientation of culture techniques. Oyster seed are produced in the hatchery by employing different types of spat collectors depending on the kind of culture practice in which they will be used. Prospects for ren, stake and bottom sowing methods of culture have been studied,