mussel resource Articles
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Enhancing competitiveness, product quality and market integration of small mussel growers: a South African case study
The key proposition in this paper is that the competitiveness of small firms operating in emerging economies and producing highly perishable products (e.g. mussels) is largely contingent on their ability to contend with high Transaction Costs (TC). The study examines the role of contracting in reducing TC associated with small-scale mussel farming in South Africa. Market risks, uncertainties, ...
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Effective Removal of Zebra Mussels with Amiad Screen Technology
Introduction The zebra mussel, native to the Black and Caspian Seas, has spread in the past few decades to waterways throughout the world mostly via ballast water. Zebra mussels, when non-indigenous to the environment, pose a serious threat to intakes of facilities that rely on fresh and brackish surface water. The mussel colonies obstruct the flow of water through the pipelines eventually ...
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Zebra Mussels: Aquatic Invaders
Few subjects aside from zebras can be adequately addressed in terms of black and white, but when it comes to the threat of invasive species there are very few shades of gray. Dreissena polymorpha, more commonly known as zebra mussels, share their namesakes’ signature black and white banding. These little mussels rarely exceed an inch in length, but when they stray from their native Eurasian ...
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