American Hard-Shelled Clam Experiments in Irish Waters

In each of the years 1969, 1970 and 1971, the Fisheries Division of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, introduced experimental batches of second generation, disease free American hard-shelled clams from the hatchery operated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at Conmay North Wales to selected areas of the Irish coast. An analysis of the 1969 plantings of seed hard-shelled clam has already been made by Gibson and Duggnn in Fishery Leaflet No. 24 published in 1970. The results of further observations carried out from 1970 to 1972, are now incorporated with the 1969 data and together form the material for this Leaflet.

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10793/475

Citation

Gibson, F. A. & Duggan, C. B., "American Hard-Shelled Clam Experiments in Irish Waters", Irish Fisheries Leaflet, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Fisheries Division) 1973