DutchNews, December 21, 2015
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| File photograph of oysters in Yerseke. Photo: Takeaway via Wikimedia Commons |
An oyster farm in Zeeland is claiming a
world first after successfully raising the clams on land, NOS reports.
Father
and son team Sam and Sybe Smit cultivated the creuse or Japanese oysters at
their high-tech facility in Kats, on the Oosterschelde estuary. The first batch
is being taken to market this week so they are available in restaurants and
specialist fishmongers in time for Christmas.
The farmers used containers
filled with purified river water and home-grown plankton to mature the oysters,
which were bought from a sea oyster farm as immature specimens.
The technique
allows oysters to mature and be sold all year round and reduces damage through
disease. Eventually the team hope to cultivate the oysters from seed.
The
Smits’ next aim is to breed the European flat oyster, which is a more valuable
species on the fish markets.
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