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Sustaining oyster farming with sturdier rafts

August 26, 2024
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Amid the rising human population and pressure on food supplies, the world can’t be everyone’s oyster. But perhaps there might be more oysters to eat if an Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team’s findings mean sturdy plastic rafts will be used in their farming.

Polyethylene raft for oyster farming

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Amid the rising human population and pressure on food supplies, the world can’t be everyone’s oyster. But perhaps there might be more oysters to eat if an Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team’s findings mean sturdy plastic rafts will be used in their farming.

Conventional oyster farming uses bamboo rafts with additional flotation devices such as Styrofoam. Though relatively affordable, these rafts can be damaged in typhoons. The OMU-led researchers propose a polyethylene raft that keeps costs manageable but is about five times more durable than a bamboo raft.

OMU Graduate School of Engineering Associate Professor Yasunori Nihei led the team in running the numerical analysis and verifying the performance by building a test model of the polyethylene raft.

“The numerical analysis technique developed in this research is expected to be applicable not only to oysters, but also to the performance evaluation of aquaculture ponds,” Professor Nihei proclaimed. “We hope our efforts will contribute greatly to the future growth of the aquaculture industry.”

The findings were published in Ocean Engineering.

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Journal

Ocean Engineering

DOI

10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.118537

Method of Research

Computational simulation/modeling

Subject of Research

Not applicable

Article Title

Motion characteristics and deformation performance of highly flexible polyethylene rafts for oyster farming

Article Publication Date

2-Jul-2024

COI Statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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