Collaborating on kaimoana

Thanks to an International Leader Fellowship funded by Catalyst: Leaders, Cawthron Institute and the New Zealand oyster industry have been able to develop closer research links with Dr Pierre Boudry – a world leading shellfish genetics and physiology expert from L’Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (Ifremer, the French Marine Science Research Institute).

During Dr Boudry’s first of three fellowship-funded visits to New Zealand, he regularly met with Cawthron’s shellfish scientists and industry partners, and visited Pacific oyster farms as well as the Cawthron Institute’s shellfish facilities. He also participated in a Pacific oyster workshop organised by the Cawthron Institute and with additional participation from Australia’s national science research agency (CSIRO), Moana, SPATnz, University of Sydney, and Auckland University of Technology.

“The research collaboration between Cawthron and Dr Boudry and Ifremer is providing valuable insights for New Zealand’s shellfish breeding programmes, with the aim of reviewing and enhancing the methodologies and strategies used for family-based shellfish selective breeding in New Zealand.”

DR JANE SYMONDS, CAWTHRON INSTITUTE

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