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Experiment designed to devise a method to protect recently-set oystersfrom drills by spreading chemically treated sand over the bed

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Description

Experiment designed to devise a method to protect recently-set oystersfrom drills by spreading chemically treated sand over the bed. Drills becamequickly swollen and unable to move, while young oysters remained apparentlyunaffected.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection

Display Date

1960

Location

Connecticut, Milford

Collection

Historic Fisheries