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Projects

PSI has a substantial portfolio of shellfish research projects. We are currently engaged in a number of federal, state, local and privately funded projects aimed at maintaining and restoring natural resources, improving the quality of harvested and farmed seafood, monitoring environmental conditions and educating the general public. Selected projects include:

Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC)

• Laboratory assessment of the relation between water temperature, immersion time and exposure to bactericidal oxidation products on Vibrio parahaemolyticus levels in Pacific oysters
• Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Oysters: Effects of Beach Temperature and Tidal Elevation

NOAA Marine Aquaculture Program (NMAI)

• Environmental Interactions and Regulatory Compliance
• Developing New Methods for Successful Geoduck Clam Farming
• Environmental and Technical Assessment of Alternative Shellfish Production Methods
• Washington State Shellfish Production & Restoration - Environmental & Economic Benefits & Costs
• West Coast Shellfish Aquaculture - Economic Impacts, Barriers to Entry and Opportunities for Expanded Production

NOAA/Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program

• Biosecure domestication of native geoduck clams
• Harvest Management Tools to Control the Levels of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Oysters and Other Bivalve Shellfish
• Evaluation and Development of Advanced Farm Management and Harvesting Tools for Economically Efficient and Environmentally Sustainable Production of Manila Clams
• Manila Clam Mortality Investigations
• Denman Island Disease Studies

NOAA/SeaGrant Oyster Disease Program (ODRP)

• Improvement of Disease Resistance and Understanding of Summer Mortality in Pacific Oysters
• Oyster Herpes Virus Threat to U.S. Oyster

NOAA Sea Grant Program:

• Ecological Characteristics and Carrying Capacity of Suspended Shellfish Culture Systems

USDA/Food Safety Initiative

• Characterization of the Cadmium Health Risk, Concentration and Ways to Minimize Cadmium Residues in Shellfish

USDA-CSREES/Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE)

• Development and Implementation of Integrated Pest Management

Other

• Burrowing Shrimp
• Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring Program
• Olympic Region Harmful Algal Blooms - ORHAB Partnership
• Pilot-scale assessment of the relationship between water temperature, immersion time and exposure to bactericidal oxidation products on Vibro vulnificus and V. parahaemolyticus levels in Gulf oysters
• Quartermaster Harbor Bivalve Mariculture Nutrient Mitigation Analysis and Outreach
• Scoopy Doo! A Pet Waste Education Campaign, Thurston County
• Promoting Pet Waste Education – a “one-size-fits all” approach
• Shellfish Farmers as First Responders to Spills

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