The mussel culture rope is made of interlooped hitches providing hollows, crevices and cavities for sheltering young mussels against predators and for providing extended attachment surface to retain growing mussels. The loopwork is a recyclable type loopworks having a fixed knot at a starting end thereof and a releasable knot and a loopwork release segment at a terminal end thereof. The loopwork is recycled into a plain rope during harvest and braided again for a subsequent culture cycle.
