CULTURE SYSTEM AND CULTURE EQUIPMENT FOR BIVALVE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide both culture equipment for bivalves capable of creating an optimal culture environment controlled according to the purpose of culture such as rearing of spats or rehabilitation of weakened shellfishes and carrying out the culture while artificially supplying a feed such as high-density phytoplanktons and the culture equipment for the bivalves suitable for installation side by side with the culture system. SOLUTION: This culture system for bivalves comprises a culture vessel having a peripheral wall and a bottom wall, hung from the sea surface, capable of preventing a feed supplied into the vessel from discharging to the outside of the vessel and provided with window openings capable of carrying out the seawater exchange for exchanging seawater in the vessel with seawater on the outside of the vessel in a prescribed proportion in at least the peripheral wall, a mooring means for hanging the culture vessel down from the sea surface, a feeding means for supplying the feed into interior of the culture vessel, a seawater fluidizing means for fluidizing the seawater in the culture vessel and a shellfish holding means for holding the bivalves requiring the culture in the interior of the culture vessel. Furthermore, the culture vessel for the bivalves is suitable for installation side by side with the culture system.