This unit standard is for people involved in farming single-seed Pacific oyster spat and who have responsibility for quality and quantity of output.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: explain the key factors that influence single-seed Pacific oyster spat growth in a pond-nursery system; explain the ways to manipulate the growth and quality of single-seed oyster spat in a pond-nursery system; explain the indicators of good growth performance of single-seed Pacific oyster spat that can be observed in the pond-nursery system and on the farm grow-out; explain the procedures used for estimating numbers of single-seed Pacific oyster spat and carry out the estimation; and handle single-seed Pacific oyster spat in a pond-nursery system to maintain quality.
