A method to prolong time-until-death during storage of alive bivalves, by periodically forcing the animals in a first step of a cycle of at least two steps to abruptly adopt an anaerobic metabolism by either:- exposure to (sea-)water, and simultaneously imposing a physical and/or a chemical threat or- alternatively in a first step by exposure to dry conditionsand in the second step to abruptly adopt an aerobic metabolism by exposure to wet conditions.
