Composition of beachcast material containing green-lipped mussel (Perna canaliculus) seed harvested for aquaculture in New Zealand

A globally unique aspect of the substantial mussel aquaculture industry in New Zealand is its major reliance on wild juvenile mussel seed that is harvested from beachcast material sporadically arriving at a single beach in the north of the country. Hundreds of tonnes of the seed material are harvested from Ninety Mile Beach each year and transported around the entire country to seed Greenshell™ mussel (Perna canaliculus) farms, which have a...