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During the week of November 12-17, 1987, staff and trainees from the MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery in Palau exported 3,000 captive-bred specimens of the threatened species Tridacna derasa (mean shell size 9.4 cm or 3.6 inches) to American Samoa as part of a regional reef stocking and conservation program. This video shows a team of […]

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Tom Watson, Theofanes Isamu and Germance Taro examine a large “fugu” pufferfish (Tetradon stellatus) speared by a night diver in the MMDC Giant Clam Nursery in Malakal Harbor, Republic of Palau. Inside the puffer’s mouth at the time it was killed was a fragment of freshly broken shell from a 3-year-old cultured giant clam, Tridacna […]

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Palau’s MMDC (Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center), founded in the late 1960’s by James McVey of NOAA, hold’s the distinction of being the world’s first successful giant clam hatchery and ocean farm. Masashi Yamaguchi and Steve Jameson achieved successful laboratory-scale spawning and larval culture with several tridacnid clam species in Palau and Guam in the early […]

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Palau’s MMDC (Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center), founded in the late 1960’s by James McVey of NOAA, hold’s the distinction of being the world’s first successful giant clam hatchery and ocean farm. Masashi Yamaguchi and Steve Jameson achieved successful laboratory-scale spawning and larval culture with several tridacnid clam species in Palau and Guam in the early […]

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In this interview conducted in the Republic of Palau in October, 1987, Mr. John You, then Chief of the Marine Resource Office in Yap State, Federated State of Micronesia, describes a conservation program in which thousands of cultured giant clams, Tridacna derasa, were shipped from Palau and planted in clam gardens in the villages of […]

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This video presents an extended look at the MMDC ocean nursery for giant clams as it appeared in 1989. MMDC is the acronym for Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center in Koror, Palau. The facility is now (2010) called PMDC, the Palau Mariculture Demonstration Center. By 1990 the MMDC ocean nursery contained over 10,000 mature, captive-bred broodstock […]

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While ATI Power Cone skimmers have landed in the United States, ATI has gone ahead and released a video showing the skimmer in action. The ATI Power Cone 200 is shown here in what seems like some sort of fast forward type bubble production. The 200 model which uses ATI’s nifty gridwheel impeller coupled to […]

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Help Save Bluefin Tuna

Posted: 20th July 2010 by admin in Fish, News, Videos
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Adrian Grenier Wants To Stop Bluefin Tuna From Going Too Fast, Short Version from Oceana on Vimeo. Watch “Entourage” star Adrian Grenier swim alongside bluefin tuna, one of the fastest and most endangered fish in the ocean. Join Adrian and sign up to help Oceana save bluefin, before they’re gone for good. Go to oceana.org/goingfast. […]

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Giant Catfish weighs over 600LBS

Posted: 20th July 2010 by admin in Fish, News, Videos
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Attaining an unconfirmed length of 3 m, the Mekong giant catfish grows extremely quickly, reaching a mass of 150 to 200 kg in only six years. The largest catch recorded in Thailand since record-keeping began in 1981 was a female measuring 2.7 m (roughly 9 feet) in length and weighing 293 kg (646 lb). This […]

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