Date: 21 September 1998

From: Megan Davis <Mdavis@HBOI.edu>

To: aqua-l@killick.imft.nf.ca

HARD CLAM AQUACULTURE COURSE

October 5-9, 1998, Ft. Pierce, FL, USA

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Inc. (HBOI) will be conducting a five-day hard clam aquaculture course on October 5-9, 1998 at its on-site Aquaculture Center for Training Education and Demonstration (A.C.T.E.D.) facilities. The course, designed for individuals interested in the hard clam aquaculture business or in starting a clam farm, includes land-based and field based nursery system design and operation, grow-out strategies, sieving, sorting, lease siting and application, general permitting, shellfish regulations, controlling predators, clam economics, marketing and maintaining records.

Info:

Harbor Branch ACTED Program Manager, Dr. Megan Davis-Hodgkins, 5600 US 1 North, Ft. Pierce, FL 34946

Tel: (561) 465-2400 or 1-800-333-4264 ext. 416.

email: mdavis@hboi.edu

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