The Oyster Industry of Eastern Mexico
Mexico has an oyster industry of substantial size, ranking about sixth in the world. In 1993, among the top ten oyster producers, Korea, Japan, the United States, China, and France ranked ahead of Mexico, while the Philippines, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand trailed it (Fig. 1). On its east coast, the species landed is the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, while on its west coast C. corteziensis, C. iridescens, and the Pacific oyster, C. gigas, are landed. During the last 10-15 years, annual production often was at least 50,000 t of shelled oysters, or nearly 1.5 million bushels (Anonymous, 1995), with the great preponderance (90%) coming from a series of lagoons connecting with the Gulf of Mexico along the east coast (Fig. 2) and the remainder produced on the west coast.
Main Authors: | MacKenzie, Jr. , Clyde L., Wakida-Kusunoki, Armando T. |
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Format: | article biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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1997
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Subjects: | Biology, Ecology, Fisheries, Management, |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/26440 |
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