Continued Studies of Juvenile Oyster Disease (JOD) in the Northeastern United States
Many oyster aquaculture operations in the northeastern United States, from Maine to Long Island Sound, saw production plummet 50 to 90 percent, beginning in 1990 because of juvenile oyster disease (JOD). Researchers are continuing work with a grower in Long Island Sound to breed JOD-resistant oysters; evaluations of oysters bred in 1994 showed mortalities in selectively-spawned strains were greatly reduced; at present they are testing the susceptibility of two other oyster species to JOD.
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Stephen Jordan, C. Austin Farley and Earl J. Lewis, Jr.
NOAA, Cooperative Oxford Laboratory
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
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