National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service

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Design and Use of an Apparatus for Quantifying Bivalve Suspension Feeding at Sea

Eve Galimany¹, Julie M. Rose¹, Mark S. Dixon¹, Robert Alix¹, Yaqin Li¹, Gary H. Wikfors¹

¹Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service

A flow-through device for using the biodeposition method to quantify filtration and feeding behavior of bivalve mollusks was modified for shipboard use. A two-dimensional gimbal table built around the device isolates the apparatus from boat motion, thereby allowing the accurate quantification of bivalve filtration variables at offshore shellfish aquaculture sites.