INTRODUCTION, SPAT REARING AND EXPERIMENTAL CULTURE OF BAY SCALLOP, ARGOPECTEN IRRADIANS LAMARCK

Bay scallops were introduced from the east coast of the U.S. into China to shorten the economic turn-over from 2 to 1 year. Parent scallops were carried to Qingdao on Dec. 20. 1982 and stocked in indoor tanks at controlled temperature and fed with a mixture of Phaeodictylum tricomutum, Pyrarnmonas sp. and Chhrella sp. They spawned on Jan. 26 of the next year. The larvae were reared at a temperature of 18 -21℃ and fed with Isochrysis galbana, Pyramimonas sp. and Chorella sp. In 4 weeks’ growing, the spats averaged 827um. They attained a height of 6.9 mm on May 9. In the middle of May, the seed scallops were transferred to Luoyuan Bay in Fujian Province, and Jiaozhou Bay, as well as the area off Taiping Jiao Cape, Qingdao, Shandong Province for experimental culture in plastic netcages suspended on a single line raft.Bay scallops cultured in . Luoyuan Bay grew to an averaged shell height of 10.4 mm. In Jiaozhou Bay and the Taiping Jiao Cape culture area, they grew to SO mm in average shell height (marketa