NEW ZEALAND'S Cawthron Institute looks set to have found an answer to a problem that has plagued the mussel farming industry - how to clean toxins from spat, reports DOMINIC ANDRAE.
The Nelson-based institute as developed a way of cleaning the spat of a toxin-producing algae that was found in New Zealand for the first time last year.
Aquaculture scientist Kevin Heasman said he had been working on the project since the algal bloom started to affect much of the North island's west coast late last year.
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