FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Storage of Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas in recirculating tank: ammonia excretion and potential nitrification rates BT AF BUZIN, Florence DUPUY, Beatrice LEFEBVRE, Sebastien BARILLE, Laurent HAURE, Joel AS 1:1,2;2:1;3:3;4:2;5:4; FF 1:PDG-RBE-AGSAE-LGP;2:PDG-RBE-SG2M-LSPC;3:;4:;5:PDG-RBE-SG2M-LGPMM; C1 IFREMER, Laboratoire Sécurisation des Productions en Conchyliculture Polder des Champs, Pont n̊ 7, 85230 Bouin, France LUNAM Université, Université de Nantes, Mer Molécules Santé EA 2160, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, BP 92208, 2 rue de la Houssinière, Nantes F-44322, France Université de Lille 1 Sciences et Technologies, CNRS, UMR 8187 Laboratoire d’Océanographie et de Géoscience, Wimereux Marine Station, 28 av. Foch, Wimereux F-62930, France IFREMER, Laboratoire de Génétique et Pathologie des Mollusques Marins, Station de la Tremblade - Ronce Les Bains - La Tremblade F-17390, France C2 IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV NANTES, FRANCE UNIV LILLE, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BOUIN LA TREMBLADE SE PDG-RBE-AGSAE-LGP PDG-RBE-SG2M-LSPC PDG-RBE-SG2M-LGPMM IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-univ-france IF 1.381 TC 14 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00248/35889/34409.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Crassostrea gigas;Ammonia excretion;Nitrification rate;Recirculating system;Temperature AB In response to the closure of shellfish production sites due to increasing occurrence of toxic algal blooms, land-based recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) could be used by producers to store a proportion of their stock temporarily. An RAS prototype was tested in this study to store Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas over a range of temperatures. In such systems, the water temperature is a variable that could influence the bivalve excretion rate of ammonia, the concentration of which may become critical for the water quality. In this study, we first estimated the total ammonia nitrogen (TAN, N-NH4+ + N-NH3) excretion of the Pacific oyster and then investigated whether the bacterial population associated with the oysters could act as a natural biofilter by measuring the potential nitrification rate (PNR) of the shell. The TAN excretion rate varied significantly with temperature. The PNRs were significantly different depending on the shell surface considered with a PNR of 0.42 ± 0.11 (SD) nmol N cm−2 h−1 for the internal part, 0.96 ± 0.15 (SD) nmol N cm−2 h−1 for the external part of the shell. In addition, a 5-week experiment was conducted with a 180 kg of oyster stock stored in a 1900 L RAS to monitor TAN concentration and to establish a TAN budget at the level of an oyster population. The TAN concentration sharply declined in the RAS after 6 days and a stable concentration of 3.3 ± 0.91 (SD) μmol N L−1 was reached till the end of the experiment. This measurement, as well as the estimation of a theoretical TAN budget based on the previous experiments, showed that the PNR and some other associated processes were sufficient to counteract the ammonia fluxes excreted by the oysters. This result underlines the significant role played by the nitrifying bacterial population colonizing the bivalve shell and suggests that such an oyster stock could be stored in a recirculating tank without the addition of a biofilter, which would represent a real economic advantage. PY 2015 PD JAN SO Aquacultural Engineering SN 0144-8609 PU Elsevier VL 64 UT 000350093900002 BP 8 EP 14 DI 10.1016/j.aquaeng.2014.11.007 ID 35889 ER EF