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Aquaculture has the potential to meet a large part of the demand for certainfishery products. A technician at a privately owned facility is holding a bagof shells. Free-swimming oyster larvae (spawned and grown artificially) attachto the shells and are then known as spat. The spat are fed cultured algae until large enough to be placed on natural beds where they will grow until harvested. (Image credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 514 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume)