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Visit Kennebec River Biosciences

Kennebec River Biosciences

A global fish and shellfish health lab, we offer you top-quality diagnostics, import/export inspections, and veterinary solutions from consultation to custom vaccines.
2020
Kennebec River Biosciences
Visit Vibrio Fact Sheet

Vibrio Fact Sheet

General overview of Vibrio sp. and how consumers can avoid Vibrio-related illness by following current health advisories and proper handling.
2019
East Coast Shellfish Growers Association
Visit Transporting Tips for Perfect Shellfish

Transporting Tips for Perfect Shellfish

Five tips to follow for proper transportation of shellfish using a refrigerated truck.
2019
East Coast Shellfish Growers Association
Visit Harmful Algae: A Compendium Desk Reference (executive summary)

Harmful Algae: A Compendium Desk Reference (executive summary)

Provides basic information on harmful algal blooms (HAB) such as causes, most common species, successful management and monitoring programs, control, prevention, and mitigation strategies, economic consequences, associated risks to human health, and impacts on food webs and ecosystems.
2017
Connecticut Sea Grant
Visit Shellfish Biosecurity: Risks, Management & Best Practices Bivalve Shellfish Physiology, Pathogens, Diseases

Shellfish Biosecurity: Risks, Management & Best Practices Bivalve Shellfish Physiology, Pathogens, Diseases

Presentation on oyster pathogens and diseases such as MSX, SSO, dermo, and Vibrio, testing protocols, long-term management, oyster predators & pests, the difference bewteen infection and disease, disese prevention, biosecurity, risk evaluation, pathogen surveillance, and zonation.
2016
Kennebec River Biosciences
Visit Mud Blister Worms and Oyster Aquaculture

Mud Blister Worms and Oyster Aquaculture

Report on the mud blister polychaete worm, Polydora websteri, including a description, life history, settlement, burrowing, treatments, and biosecurity.
2015
Maine Sea Grant, University of Maine
Visit Northeastern U.S. Aquaculture Management Guide: A manual for the identification and management of aquaculture production hazards

Northeastern U.S. Aquaculture Management Guide: A manual for the identification and management of aquaculture production hazards

Intended to help prospective farmers to identify, record, monitor, and manage production hazards, and ultimately minimize production-related risk. Discusses types of risk in aquaculture, record keeping, environmental conditions, biofouling organisms, predators, diseases, parasites, invasive species, and operational procedures.
2014
Northeast Regional Aquaculture Center, USDA
Visit Dead and Dying Shellfish: What to Do?

Dead and Dying Shellfish: What to Do?

Fact sheet designed to try to improve the growers knowledge on the process to contact a professional who can examine dead or dying shellfish to determine the cause and how to get the shellfish to them for analysis.
2013
Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Visit Oyster Diseases of the Chesapeake Bay: Dermo and MSX Fact Sheet

Oyster Diseases of the Chesapeake Bay: Dermo and MSX Fact Sheet

Fact sheet on Dermo disease, Perkinsus marinus, and MSX disease, Haplosporidium nelsoni, including geographic distribution, history, biology, epizootiology, environmental influences, control measures, and diagnostic methods.
2013
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Visit For Consumers of Molluscan Shellfish: Safe Handling, Storage, and Cooking Practices

For Consumers of Molluscan Shellfish: Safe Handling, Storage, and Cooking Practices

This brochure reviews safe handling, storage, and cooking practices that shellfish consumers should follow to prevent illness.
2013
Connecticut Sea Grant
Visit Harmful Algae and Marine Aquaculture in the Northeastern United States

Harmful Algae and Marine Aquaculture in the Northeastern United States

Reviews harmful algae blooms including conditions for biotoxin formation, detection, management, and common types of HAB's in the northeast.
2010
Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Visit Exploring Options to Reduce Polydora Infestations on Maine Oyster Farms

Exploring Options to Reduce Polydora Infestations on Maine Oyster Farms

Explores husbandry and equipment solutions to infestations of Polydora websteri, a marine polychaete worm, on a Maine oyster farm.
2010
Maine Sea Grant
Visit Shellfish Sanitation & HACCP Guidelines

Shellfish Sanitation & HACCP Guidelines

This book was designed with Certified Shellfish Dealers in mind and gives detailed information about HACCP Plans (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point), monitoring of Daily Sanitation practices, SSOP (Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures), Tags, Tagging & Transportation of Shellstock, Wet Storage Standard Operating Procedure, and more.
2007
Maine DMR Bureau of Public Health
Visit Shellfish Handling, Tagging, and Labeling

Shellfish Handling, Tagging, and Labeling

Slideshow summarizing the regulations for shellstock and shucked shellfish handling, sanitation, tagging, and labeling for the state of Maine
2004
Maine DMR Bureau of Public Health
Visit Juvenile Oyster Disease of Eastern Oysters

Juvenile Oyster Disease of Eastern Oysters

Fact sheet on juvenile oyster disease (JOD) including background on the disease and etiological agent, known geographical range, host species, epizootiology, signs of disease, diagnostic procedures, procedures for transportation, and storage of samples.
2004
Rutgers University
Visit Factors Affecting Health of the Oyster

Factors Affecting Health of the Oyster

Fact sheet on factors causing pathological changes in oysters, categories of bivalve pathology, preventative care information, and factors regulating oyster stock density.
2000
Connecticut Department of Agriculture
Visit Roseovarius Oyster Disease

Roseovarius Oyster Disease

Fact sheet on roseovarius oyster disease (ROD), previously known as juvenile oyster disease (JOD) including infection, mortality, resistance, and how to determine if an oyster is infected.
2000
Connecticut Department of Agriculture
Visit MSX Disease

MSX Disease

Fact sheet on MSX, caused by a single‐celled Protozoan parasite Haplosporidium nelsoni, including transmission, history, epizootic, resistance, infection, mortality, and management.
2000
Connecticut Department of Agriculture
Visit Dermo Disease

Dermo Disease

Fact sheet on dermo disease, caused by a single‐celled Protozoan parasite Perkinsus marinus, including transmission, environmental factors, stages of the infection, and how to determine if oysters are infected.
2000
Connecticut Department of Agriculture
Visit A Guide to Bivalve Diseases for Aquaculturists in the Northeastern U.S.

A Guide to Bivalve Diseases for Aquaculturists in the Northeastern U.S.

Reviews common diseases of marine bivalves such as MSX, dermo, juvenile oyster disease, bonamiasis, hemic neoplasia, gonadal neoplasia, and QPX, and available means for preventing or minimizing their impacts.
1999
Maine Sea Grant
Visit History and impact of MSX and Dermo Diseases on Oyster Stocks in the Northeast Region

History and impact of MSX and Dermo Diseases on Oyster Stocks in the Northeast Region

In-depth review of the natural history and distribution, transmission, diagnostic methods, environmental influences, control measures, and management recommendations for MSX disease and dermo disease on oyster stocks.
1993
Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center

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Northeastern U.S. Aquaculture Management Guide: A manual for the identification and management of aquaculture production hazards

Dead and Dying Shellfish: What to Do?

Oyster Diseases of the Chesapeake Bay: Dermo and MSX Fact Sheet

For Consumers of Molluscan Shellfish: Safe Handling, Storage, and Cooking Practices

Harmful Algae and Marine Aquaculture in the Northeastern United States

Exploring Options to Reduce Polydora Infestations on Maine Oyster Farms

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Harmful Algae: A Compendium Desk Reference (executive summary)

Shellfish Biosecurity: Risks, Management & Best Practices Bivalve Shellfish Physiology, Pathogens, Diseases

Mud Blister Worms and Oyster Aquaculture

Northeastern U.S. Aquaculture Management Guide: A manual for the identification and management of aquaculture production hazards

Dead and Dying Shellfish: What to Do?

Oyster Diseases of the Chesapeake Bay: Dermo and MSX Fact Sheet

For Consumers of Molluscan Shellfish: Safe Handling, Storage, and Cooking Practices

Harmful Algae and Marine Aquaculture in the Northeastern United States

Exploring Options to Reduce Polydora Infestations on Maine Oyster Farms

Shellfish Sanitation & HACCP Guidelines

Shellfish Handling, Tagging, and Labeling

Juvenile Oyster Disease of Eastern Oysters

Factors Affecting Health of the Oyster

Roseovarius Oyster Disease

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Dermo Disease

A Guide to Bivalve Diseases for Aquaculturists in the Northeastern U.S.

History and impact of MSX and Dermo Diseases on Oyster Stocks in the Northeast Region