The Saldanha Bay Oyster Company has two different buildings where they get the oysters market ready. The first is situated by the ocean, where they deliver the oysters. The oysters are also being cleaned and assessed in this building, they are checked to see if they are fully grown and/or if they have diseases. After this process, they are taken to the second facility which is a few meters away from the first one, and in this facility the oysters are further cared for and developed, getting ready for shipping and transporting to various markets.
This oyster farm makes use of recirculation systems, which uses plenty of energy in order to pump water through its system. So the use of energy is more than the water use, due to the recirculation …show more content…
Protozoan parasite, Mikrocytos mackini, or more commonly known as the Denman island disease is known to occur in Crassostrea gigas on the west coast of Canada, it is also probable that there is an abundance of the Denman island disease throughout the Strait of Georgia, and confined to other specific locations around Vancouver Island, it could also be found on areas that are adjacent to the State of Washington, USA (Elston et al., 2015). The steps to be taken as a result of this disease is for the aquaculture facility to apply more restricted modified culture practices – oysters that are infected should not be moved to an area where there is or was no indication of the Denman island disease recorded (currently or historically), especially if that area has a cooler water temperature profile.
Oysters, being natural filter feeders, instead of creating pollution and other harmful wastes, they rather clean up the water in the area, so there is either no pollution or there is little pollution that is caused by the organisms being farmed. However, as for the transportation of the oysters, both from the long lines to the cleaning and assessment facility, to the facility where the oysters get packed and transported to their various wholesalers, that would seem to be the only pollution that would contribute to the environmental
This oyster farm makes use of recirculation systems, which uses plenty of energy in order to pump water through its system. So the use of energy is more than the water use, due to the recirculation …show more content…
Protozoan parasite, Mikrocytos mackini, or more commonly known as the Denman island disease is known to occur in Crassostrea gigas on the west coast of Canada, it is also probable that there is an abundance of the Denman island disease throughout the Strait of Georgia, and confined to other specific locations around Vancouver Island, it could also be found on areas that are adjacent to the State of Washington, USA (Elston et al., 2015). The steps to be taken as a result of this disease is for the aquaculture facility to apply more restricted modified culture practices – oysters that are infected should not be moved to an area where there is or was no indication of the Denman island disease recorded (currently or historically), especially if that area has a cooler water temperature profile.
Oysters, being natural filter feeders, instead of creating pollution and other harmful wastes, they rather clean up the water in the area, so there is either no pollution or there is little pollution that is caused by the organisms being farmed. However, as for the transportation of the oysters, both from the long lines to the cleaning and assessment facility, to the facility where the oysters get packed and transported to their various wholesalers, that would seem to be the only pollution that would contribute to the environmental