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So I manage at a large restaurant on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, and we sell on average 150-200 dozen oysters on a busy day. Whenever the delivery guy comes from the docks, his description of really good sacks usually boils down to them being mostly clones. What is the advantage of 'clones' when harvesting oysters? What is the process by which a fishermen can even clone an oyster, are they asexual? Finally, where you're at, do red tides affect harvesting, or is that just a gulf of mexico thing?

So in college I worked in an analytical systems lab as a student worker, basically just washing equipment and keeping the lab clean. The job I HATED though was having to go through the specimen fridge and tossing out the old bottles of horse urine. Aside from running many samples through the mass spec and gas chromatograph for other researchers, the lab made extra money drug testing race horses from across the nation for PED's. The things we tested for ranged from valium to steroids to cocaine. My question is this....how prevalent is the drugging of horses today? This was in the US, but i'm curious if you have the same problem in Australia.

I know that various mosquito species can be found in almost every corner of the world, but is there a certain species that is the predominant carrier of Zika? And if so, does this limit the range that Zika can spread naturally, excluding humans carrying it through travel?