Marine Biology

Giant clam research and prospect of aquaculture in the South China Sea

  • ZHOU Qin ,
  • WANG Yu-fen ,
  • JIANG Xiu-feng
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  • China Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beidaihe Station, Beidaihe 066100, China

Received date: 2012-12-24

  Revised date: 2013-05-24

  Online published: 2014-04-02

Abstract

Giant clams are of the family Tridacnidae with 10 living species in only two genera, Tridacna and Hippopus. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Pacific Rim countries, including Australia, the Philippines and the U.S., conducted a series of joint research on the cultivation of giant clams and the relevant physiological, ecological and economic factors. The unique feature of giant clams among bivalve molluscs is their symbiotic relationship with dinoflagellate algae, zooxanthellae (Symbiodinium. sp); this gives them a nutritional and growth advantage over normal bivalve molluscs. Since the stocking of giant clams can reach 400 tonnes per hectare, giant clams have great significance to both mariculture sector and tropical coral reef ecosystem. Moreover, due to benefits to coral reef restoration and carbon sink fisheries, the growth of giant clams also has a significance for marine development and protection. Meantime The South China Sea has 3000 km2 tropical reef water, which is suitable for developing mariculture. We suggest that giant clams cultivation have the potential to become a principle sector of tropical mariculture that could facilitates the protection of coral reefs as well as the recovery and conservation of the South China Sea ecosystem.

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ZHOU Qin , WANG Yu-fen , JIANG Xiu-feng . Giant clam research and prospect of aquaculture in the South China Sea[J]. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2014 , 33(2) : 87 -93 . DOI: 10.11978/j.issn.1009-5470.2014.02.012

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