May 21, 2025
This spring served as a prime season for oyster larvae sampling. As part of the POPOyster project and in collaboration with the RIBAR project, we carried out four field research campaigns along the western coast of Istria. Sampling was conducted at 20 stations, where we collected plankton samples for microscopic and molecular analysis, as well as CTD profiles, to gain a detailed understanding of oyster larvae distribution during the peak of the spring spawning season.