Professional paper
TWENTY YEARS OF RESEARCH AND SHELLFISH FARMING IN THE MOUTH OF THE KRKA RIVER
2001, 59 (3) p. 121-130
Drago Maguš, Emin Teskeredžić, Željko Šain
Abstract
This work shows a short review of activities in the twenty years of research and controlled shellfish farming in the brackish waters of the mouth of the Krka River. Legislative background for granting concessions was especially emphasized as well as problems limiting aquaculture development in this extremely productive area where, according to the latest facts, the production of sea organisms could witness a manifold increase without any substantial disturbance of the ecologic stability of the aquatorium. The analysis of the further farming increase suggests controlled mussel and oyster culturing thus making a polyculture with fish; as well as a secondary culturing of scallops and cockles within the mussel and/or oyster polyculture process in deeper water layers which have not been exploited up to now.