Engineering gives spat a better start in life

Engineering gives spat a better start in life

Reading Time: 2 minutes Imagine a business where 99.5% of the product never reaches the market.   This is the reality for shellfish farming in New Zealand, where billions of juvenile greenshell mussels, known as spat, are naturally lost in the ocean before they grow to market-ready size.   While aquaculture is one of the country’s fastest-growing industries, these losses mean fewer local shellfish on plates, and millions of dollars lost every ye…