The need for improving the capacity of industry stakeholders (farmers, hatchery operators and researchers) to use cryopreservation is urgent due recent events which threaten the oyster industry’s viability. Terrence Tiersch of Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSUAC) to transfer existing technology and develop and standardize new methods that can be used at the hatcheries in Hawaii and the three partner oyster farms in Washington. Goosepoint Oyster (GO), Hawaiian Shellfish (HS) and the Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center (PACRC) of the University of Hawaii Hilo will work with Dr. The proposed work will provide the means for remote shellfish hatcheries to become more efficient, preserve critical germplasm and allow for selective breeding through developing farm-based methods for cryopreservation of oyster gametes. Changing environmental and economic circumstances now make cryopreservation not only more relevant, but absolutely critical to the future of the West Coast oyster industry. Aside from the general lack of adoption of a proven technology, repositories for oyster germplasm do not exist on a worldwide basis, making the oyster industry highly vulnerable to economic losses. Oyster aquaculture has barely adopted it at all. Although cryopreservation is a fundamental technology in animal husbandry, the aquaculture industry lags behind other animal production sectors in its use.
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