Giant Clams; a great future for tropical islands 'Blue Economy'.
A unique & maintenance-free giant clams propagation method is now possible.
Why are many atolls in Polynesia, the Cook Islands and the Line Islands still harbouring many millions of T.Maxima clams while other Pacific islands have lost most of their clam species already; it's because atolls are like large "bathtubs" and clam larvae can't escape! Islands with fringing reefs always lose most of the clam larvae due to outgoing currents and tides.
The TMDC technique will allow any island to replicate what atolls do by sowing millions of 2-3mm clam seeds directly onto the reef-flats at a time when these seeds can re-attach within minutes to any substrate they'll find, by this bypassing 3 months of the most mortality prone phase of natural giant clam recruitment.
Any island hatchery using TMDC's 'bypass' technique (see pdf here below) will be able to produce economically large numbers of seeds (all species) for effective restocking of giant clams with the potential bonus of rehabilitating coral reefs degraded by climate change induced bleaching.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0220141
Giant clams do not need any additional feeding during their livecycle, making this mariculture one of the most sustainable and environment friendly agri-business in the world also better at carbon sequestration than even forestry.
The calcium carbonate of a giant clam shell will be locked-in until the Sun goes out in 4.5 billion years!
| tmdc_bypass_a.pdf |
