A reference to the problem before the Fisheries Department of destroying the oyster borer, which causes serious damage in the rock oyster beds in Auckland waters, was made by Mr A. W. B. Powell, conchologist at the War Memorial Museum, in a lecture. He said it was necessary to destroy annually thousands of the borers, which were shellfish. It was strange that the borers preferred to attack the rock oyster being only a secondary creature for attack. The edible mussels also had enemies. What was commonly called the mussel "beard" was actually a parasite, while within most mussels there was usually to be found a parasitic crab.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21256, 30 August 1934, Page 8
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