tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4842333668209042842024-02-20T02:25:39.676-08:00THE OYSTER IS OUR WORLDWelcome to our Oyster Blog. The Chesapeake Bay Oyster Company Blog covers alot of what's going on right now and gives a little more insight into what we do and why we do it. Hope you enjoy.
BayoysterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-2293471652039022192013-01-09T19:27:00.000-08:002020-05-29T12:07:52.969-07:00QUICKTUBE SORTER CLEANING OYSTERS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cages are dumped into hopper</div>
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Conveyor carries oysters up to QuickTube</div>
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Down they go!</div>
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Seasquirts and debris are seperated out in the first bin.</div>
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Oysters all cleaned up and smaller ones graded out</div>
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bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-15526594261149050682012-11-30T07:26:00.000-08:002012-11-30T07:26:03.085-08:00SAD DAY FOR SHELLFISH GROWERS IN US<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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U.S. Interior Secretary <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Ken+Salazar%22">Ken Salazar</a> told a popular oyster farm at Drakes Bay on Thursday to pack up and leave, effectively ending more than a century of shellfish harvesting on the picturesque inlet where Europeans first set foot in California. <br />
Salazar's decision ends a long-running dispute between the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Drakes+Bay+Oyster+Co.%22">Drakes Bay Oyster Co.</a> and the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22National+Park+Service%22">National Park Service</a> over the estuary at Point Reyes National Seashore where Sir <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Francis+Drake%22">Francis Drake</a> landed more than 400 years ago.<br />
The National Park Service intends to turn the 2,700-acre area into the first federally designated marine wilderness area on the West Coast, giving the estuary special protected status as an unaltered ecological region. To do that, Salazar rejected the oyster company's proposal to extend its 40-year lease to harvest shellfish on 1,100 acres of the property.<br />
Salazar gave the farm 90 days to move out, issuing his decision a day before the lease was set to expire and one week after visiting the Point Reyes National Seashore for a tour. <br />
"After careful consideration of the applicable law and policy, I have directed the National Park Service to allow the permit for the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. to expire at the end of its current term and to return the Drakes Estero to the state of wilderness that Congress designated for it in 1976," Salazar said in a statement. "I believe it is the right decision for Point Reyes National Seashore and for future generations who will enjoy this treasured landscape."<br />
The estuary, known as Drakes Estero, is home to tens of thousands of endangered birds, including 90 species, and the largest seal colony on the coast. It is within the boundaries of the national seashore, which is visited by 2 million people a year, providing $85 million in economic activity<strong></strong>and 1,000 jobs to surrounding communities, according to park officials. <br />
Salazar had the option to extend the lease for 10 years after Sen. <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Dianne+Feinstein%22">Dianne Feinstein</a>, D-Calif., included the provision in a rider on an appropriations bill. <br />
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Owner shocked</h3>
<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Kevin+Lunny%22">Kevin Lunny</a>, a local rancher who bought the shellfish operation from <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Johnson+Oyster+Co.%22">Johnson Oyster Co.</a> in 2004, said he was shocked when he got a call directly from Salazar on Thursday morning telling him that the 40-year occupancy agreement would not be renewed.<br />
"It's disbelief and excruciating sorrow," he said of the mood at the oyster farm, where 30 people are employed, including seven families that live on the property. <br />
"There are 30 people, all in tears this morning, who are going to lose their jobs and their homes," Lunny said. "They are experts in seafood handling and processing in the last oyster cannery in California, and there is nowhere for them to go."<br />
Many local conservationists were nevertheless overjoyed. Congressional representatives, including Rep. <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Lynn+Woolsey%22">Lynn Woolsey</a>, D-Petaluma, former Park Service employees, the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Sierra+Club%22">Sierra Club</a>, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Natural+Resources+Defense+Council%22">Natural Resources Defense Council</a>, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22The+Wilderness+Society%22">the Wilderness Society</a> and the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Marin+Audubon+Society%22">Marin Audubon Society</a> applauded the decision. <br />
"A heartfelt salute to Secretary Salazar for his wisdom and statesmanship in choosing long-term public good over short-term private interests," said <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Sylvia+Earle%22">Sylvia Earle</a>, a local environmentalist and the former chief scientist at the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22National+Oceanic+and+Atmospheric+Administration%22">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a>. "Protecting Drakes Estero, America's only West Coast marine wilderness park, will restore health and hope for the ocean and for the interests of all of the people of this country." <br />
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Impact on supply</h3>
The decision to shut down the shellfish operation and establish a marine wilderness will have a major impact in rural west Marin County, where many consider the oysters from Drakes Bay a delicacy. The vast coastal area is home to 15 historic dairy farms and cattle ranches, sheepherders and organic farmers who live and work next to, and in some cases on, National Park Service land. <br />
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The oyster farm has been in business for nearly 80 years. It is California's largest commercial shellfish operation, producing 460,000 pounds of shucked oysters a year, an amount the proprietor says is almost 40 percent of all the oysters harvested in California. It far outstrips the production of growers in nearby Tomales Bay.<br />
Salazar, who is a strong supporter of sustainable agriculture, promised to maintain the seashore's ranching and farming heritage, directing Park Service officials to pursue extensions of agriculture permits from 10 to 20 years within the seashore's pastoral zone, but the promise did little to calm the many shellfish lovers along the coast. <br />
Wade Childress, 59, of San Anselmo, was among the afternoon crowd who stopped by the Drakes Bay oyster shack after news spread that the doors would soon close. Childress said he came to the shack as a boy to eat oysters with his parents and later took his daughter for a tradition they called "seafood day." <br />
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Oyster lovers shocked</h3>
"I'm mourning right now," Childress said. <br />
Other customers called it a travesty perpetrated by the government.<br />
"This is a good organic food source in our backyard," said <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=science&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Sarah+Cane%22">Sarah Cane</a>, 48, of San Rafael. "We can co-exist. A department head in Washington, D.C., shouldn't be able to tell this community it can't eat oysters."<br />
There were still unanswered questions as Lunny, his son, Sean, and daughter, Brigid, tried to comfort longtime customers. One was what Lunny is expected to do with the millions of oysters that are still in plastic grow bags in the bay, many of which won't reach market size for another two years. The order requires him to immediately begin bringing them onshore.<br />
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Read more: <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/U-S-evicting-Point-Reyes-oyster-farmer-4077624.php#ixzz2DiYz5nuM" style="color: #003399;">http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/U-S-evicting-Point-Reyes-oyster-farmer-4077624.php#ixzz2DiYz5nuM</a><br />
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<em>by Janine Latus<br />photography by Keith Lanpher </em></div>
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Tom Gallivan is shin-deep in the salty water of the Little Machipongo Inlet, so close to the Atlantic that the tides flood and recede with the pull of the moon<strong>, </strong>flushing fresh algae and phytoplankton through his oyster beds and filling the animals’ bellies. Oysters grown here, in a marsh without rocks, have a clean, salty taste, without the lingering penny-in-your-mouth aftertaste of some New England oysters.</div>
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Tom and his crew haul 150-pound cages hand-over-hand onto a boat whose glitchy steering he MacGyvered the day before. Tonight’s moon will be nearly full, so today’s low tide should be long, giving them plenty of time to walk the flats and survey the crop, checking for fouling by silt or seaweed, or pilfering by predators out here next to Hog Island, a place so remote and undeveloped it’s designated as a protected biosphere by the United Nations.</div>
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A bald eagle watches from its perch on a driftwood log on a point on the edge of Sandy Island Bay. Herons hunt in the shallows. Ospreys scream and dive. There’s nobody out here but Tom and his team and the occasional shark.</div>
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“There’ll be times,” he says, “when we see something and we’re like, ‘I think I’m going to get back in the boat for a while.’ ”</div>
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Today, though, Tom stands in waders in the chilly early-morning tide. The sun slants through the mist that rises off the marsh. The water’s so low he can see every tiny island, every reef, every cache of cages. He can’t loiter, though. He needs to get these oysters onto the dock and into his refrigerated truck before 9 a.m. Later in the fall he’ll be able to bring them in as late as 10 or 11, but now, in late summer, he has to hustle them in quickly so they’ll stay cool enough to be safe to eat. Oyster farming is so highly regulated by both the government and the industry itself that if he goes out on the water in the afternoon he’ll carry a GPS stick to prove to marine patrol officers that he’s out and back within two hours. It’s a rule, but he’d take care anyway.</div>
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“We’re in the shellfish business but also the public health business,” Tom says. “None of us as human beings wants people to get sick, but it’s also just incredibly bad for business, especially when you’re selling a branded product.”</div>
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Tom and Ann Arseniu Gallivan own Shooting Point Oysters, working on the western side of the Eastern Shore on Nassawadox Creek, where they produce their Nassawadox Salts, and in the nature preserve on the eastern side of the Eastern Shore, where they produce Shooting Point Salts. They are part of a new breed of oyster farmers – highly educated aquaculturists who combine the generations-long connections and traditions of Eastern Shore watermen with the science of genetics and nutrition, cross-breeding and bathymetry, and the constant monitoring of offshore winds and barometric pressure. They talk about <em>Haplosporidium nelsoni</em> and <em>Perkinsus marinus</em> – the pathogens MSX and Dermo – that can wipe out their populations. They worry about proliferations of the native widgeon grass, because when it dies it sinks and suffocates all those baby oysters in the bottom of the cages.</div>
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“People have a perception of a waterman – an old guy, an old boat, just doing it one way,” says Ann, “but the way we have to do it is so technology-based, we have the GPS, we’re constantly sending in reports, we have clipboards in the packing house and we’re constantly recording the temperature of the cooler and of our animals when they come in and when they go out.”</div>
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The Gallivans aren’t hunter-gatherers, pulling native oysters out of the over-stressed Chesapeake Bay. They’re farmers, planting the seed, nurturing it, then harvesting it and bringing it to market.</div>
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Much of the seed starts in the nearby J.C. Walker Brothers hatchery, where Ann is CEO and hatchery manager. It is a place full of chest-high white vats as big around as wading pools, with sunlight and filtered creek water coming in from above and used water flowing out through a screen below, and of clear cylinders that look like alien transport tubes from sci-fi movies, tubes that during the season are full of algae in all shades of green. Ann grows the algae first in beakers and then in these massive cylinders – clear to allow photosynthesis – then titrates, a bit of this one and a bit of that, to feed the baby oysters she has created by hand, stripping selected females of their eggs and males of their sperm, then using pipettes to mix them carefully, making sure one male’s Michael Phelps-like swimmers don’t impregnate the whole bunch, because that kind of inbreeding would be bad for her product.</div>
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For a couple of weeks the grain-sized oysters swim around, Ann looking through their clear shells to see if she’s giving them enough algae, enough fresh creek water. The oyster babies are right-handed helical swimmers, their stubby appendage moving them in awkward circles. At 2 or 3 weeks they develop an “eye spot,” and Ann can tell they’re about to develop a 200-micron byssal thread and a gluey foot. That’s all they have to attach to something hard. If they fail, they die, and in the wild – between the lack of hard surfaces and the prevalence of predators – their odds are awful. Even under Ann’s care only between 15 and 20 percent survive.</div>
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Those that do are moved from the hatchery to the nursery, a dockside float of bins suspended into the creek right outside an oyster house built in the 1880s. A small engine draws creek water up through the baby oysters, feeding them as they grow. The bins in this floating upweller system – “flupsy,” for short – each hold thousands of baby oysters so small that half a hundred sit easily on Tom’s dinged and scarred fingertips.</div>
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The Gallivans grow triploid oysters, too. Triploids, developed through cross-breeding, have three sets of chromosomes, making them as sterile as mules and thus intent only on eating and growing, with no energy wasted on reproduction. Their size stays consistent, which makes it possible to keep oysters on restaurant menus year-round.</div>
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All of them, the diploids and the triploids, will soon be hauled out of the water and into the sorting house, where they’ll be run through cylinders and washed, sorted and tumbled, which knocks off the beginnings of the elongated bill that gives wild oysters their cat-tongue shape and instead forms them into the deep round cups that make oysters on the half shell so inviting.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: normal;">A</span></span>nn stands on the prow of the Oyster Queen – a barge “built for duty, not for beauty,” Tom says – as he maneuvers it next to one of the poles made of stripped local gum trees that they drive into the creek bottom to mark where they’ve planted cages. She drops the stab (pronounced “stahb”), a PVC pipe that will hold the boat in place, and Tom winches one cage down for every one he pulls up.</div>
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Here, where the creek meets the Bay, the tiny oysters filter water and algae through gills like tiny whale baleen. A crystalline style in their stomach acts as a mortar and pestle to grind up anything vaguely crunchy, so they’re chewing, in a sense, with their bellies. By the time the oyster releases the water back into the creek it’s cleaner, stripped of the organic matter that clogs the Bay, and the oyster is beginning to develop the sweet, slightly salty flavor of the Nassawadox Salts line.</div>
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The ones Ann and Tom just pulled out they’ll tumble and grade and pick off the squirters and shrimp and sucker fish, then put into cages with a bigger mesh to allow for even more water flow. They’ll do this six or seven times in the two years it takes oysters to reach market size, pulling them in, tumbling them, running them back out, always leaving the dirty cages in the farm’s yard to dry so the sun can kill any clinging barnacles or grasses rather than return their nitrogen to the creek.</div>
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“It’s analogous to organic farming,” Tom says. “We’re weeding, knocking off sea squirts, which are little tunicates that’ll foul the cages, rinsing off silt, picking out weeds.”</div>
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Tom’s dad was a fisherman in New England and Tom, now 39, had wanted to stay on the water but also have a more reliable income. He got his aquaculture degree from the University of Maine, worked on breeding triploid oysters at Rutgers University with Professor Stan Allen, then came with Allen to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College of William & Mary (where his title was “Breeding and Demonstration Associate,“ making his official acronym BADASS).</div>
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Ann, 42, had also worked at Rutgers with Allen, but by the time Tom got there she was at Maine’s College of the Atlantic. From there she did graduate work at Washington State University and only then came to VIMS to be its hatchery manager.</div>
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In 2001 they moved to this spot overlooking the conflux of Church Creek and the Nassawadox and built their own home, block by block, board by board. For the first seven or eight years they had the whole creek to themselves but now they share it with about 13 other oyster-farming families and a winery.</div>
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“The past six or seven years have been like a renaissance in oysters,” says Allen, now director of VIMS’ Aquaculture Genetics & Breeding Technology Center.</div>
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Ann and Tom are good at it, producing a couple million a year. They work on beautiful, breezy days and on days so choppy it’s hard to stay standing. When nor’easters and hurricanes roll in they bounce through the waves to anchor down their cages and pull in their boats. They could lose everything, or they could have a bumper year.</div>
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“It’s a gamble,” Tom says, “which is why we don’t go to Atlantic City. We just go out there to the creek, because we could lose everything at any moment, or we could have a great summer!”</div>
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“It’s not the perfect, sunny days that make the mettle of these guys,” says Allen, “It’s when they have to go out in the storm or break through the ice to get at their cages.”</div>
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Almost regardless of the weather, if someone is ordering oysters, out the Gallivans go.</div>
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And people are ordering a lot of oysters. The Gallivans’ branded oysters are on the menus at Rockefeller’s down at Rudee Inlet and at the high-end Lemaire restaurant in the grand Jefferson Hotel in Richmond. The couple deliver their oysters to chefs in Chapel Hill and New York, Boston and Washington. Locally they’re sold at George’s Seafood and Welton’s Seafood Markets. A smaller version called Avery’s Pearls goes up to Ryleigh’s Oyster up in the Federal Hill district of Baltimore. In one of the Gallivans’ many family-to-family collaborations, they and the restaurant owner are donating 10 cents a Pearl to the Johns Hopkins breast cancer research center; they’re already up to $3,200.</div>
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That level of success requires marketing, so when Tom isn’t smeared with tar-dark mud he’s sitting at the computer, sending out oyster-related tweets. He and Ann participate in events of the Southern Foodways Alliance, dedicated to celebrating Southern-style food. They take chefs out to visit the cages. They drive to conferences, woo restaurateurs, take students out on their boats, help everybody they can.</div>
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“I don’t know anybody who works harder,” says Bernie Herman, a professor of American Studies and Folklore at UNC-Chapel Hill who has written about the culture of Eastern Shore watermen and who came to the Gallivans when he started his own oyster plot on a nearby creek. Ann explained reproductive dynamics and Tom showed Herman a system of cages, then, heck, gave him the cages and seed and helped him hook up with the folks at VIMS.</div>
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“What was barren mud is now home to thousands of native oysters and all the myriad creatures that live around them,” Herman says. “I couldn’t have done it without Tom and Ann.”</div>
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Herman also admires the Gallivans’ commitment to improving the Bay. “They don’t wear it on their sleeve,” he says. “They live it.”</div>
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“It still blows my mind that we come out here every day,” he says. “There’s the financially rewarding part of it, of course, and that’s great. But just when it’s cold and rainy and it sucks and you’re beating through waves – and these boats beat the heck out of you – you’re still like, yeah, but I’m here, I’m not sitting in a cubicle somewhere.”</div>
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“I’m in one of the last great places on Earth,” he says. “It’s a pretty damn cool place to come to work every day.”</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emptying tanks of seed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sorting, sorting , and more sorting....keeps the fast growers moving ahead, allows for better water flow through the seed when the are the same size, shapes up them up, and cleans them up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New shipment of bags arrived and we are already out of all 13mm and 23mm sizes...we have open 9mm, sealed 9mm and 4mmsealed as well. The best way to get what you want is to pre-order and if you know you are going to use alot of bags order in volume so we can get you even better pricing than we currently offer. We won't be seeing any new bags coming in for a few months because the factory goes on vacation for the month of July.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We always have your oyster gardening needs in stock; floats, bags, float bags, taylor floats, flip floats, and ofcourse oyster seed. What a great way to have a yummy source of food at the end of your dock that also benefits the Bay!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wire wire everywhere...just let us know what kind you need... we only carry RIVERDALE MILLS wire because it is the best hands down. Wire should be seen as an investment so it should last longer than 1-2 years...our cages have been in the water for over 10 years and are still producing product.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Managing the tank upwellers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seed in the buckets...its still amazing that those little guys will be 3'+ oysters in less than a year</td></tr>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Option A</span></strong><br />
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<strong>25 - 3x4 1”x1” cages w/ bridle and tag lines </strong><br />
<strong>30 - 4mm grow out bags </strong><br />
<strong>100- 9mm grow out bags </strong><br />
<strong>260 - S-hooks </strong><br />
<strong>1 - 200’ Longline </strong><br />
<strong>2 - 4’ Hex anchors </strong><br />
<strong><u>50,000- ¼” seed*** </u></strong> <br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><strong>Price $4800*</strong></span><br />
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<strong>18 - 3x4 1”x1” cages w/ bridle and tag lines </strong><br />
<strong>7 - 3x4 ½”x ½” cages w/ bridle and tag lines </strong><br />
<strong>40 - 4mm grow out bags </strong><br />
<strong>60 - S-hooks </strong><br />
<strong>1 - 200’ Longline </strong><br />
<strong>2 - 4’ Hex anchors </strong><br />
<strong><u>50,000 ¼” seed*** </u></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Price $4800*</span></strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">*Sale requires $3000 down payment at Ocean City Show, $1000 due upon delivery** of equipment, and $800 due upon delivery of seed.</div><div style="text-align: center;">**Delivery fee will apply; we just charge for the cost of delivery, no crazy shipping and handling fees. Delivery estimates available.</div><div style="text-align: center;">***Seed is typically available between June and August</div><br />
If you are at the show and want to get some of our oysters be sure you purchase some seafood gala event tickets...remember the oysters always go fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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<object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/Imgbxczr6OQ?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/Imgbxczr6OQ?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-17602828173196292062010-10-19T06:42:00.000-07:002011-03-08T17:04:58.537-08:00LARGE SCALE METHOD FOR OYSTER GROW-OUT BAGSOther countries have been farming oysters a lot longer than us here in the States and so they have some industrial sized operations going on. If you like growing in oyster bags I thought these pictures might give you some ideas of what you could do in the future with a little rebar, some welding, a water column permit, and a whole lot of bags. This is like "rack and bag" on steroids!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTZaeBhE6DgWCujuvE6sXpZphenXrANHQfLXd1_YwQsmPO7Hj5WQYw8MJ2O2_jeNOIjOrWFN_fzAl3cm01KzvPMskQYg_oXqwogZEHf4AnyTbZvN7quFFbGXqwtD92dZL9dDQ2OLDf/s1600/IMAG4945.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529753989878160658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTZaeBhE6DgWCujuvE6sXpZphenXrANHQfLXd1_YwQsmPO7Hj5WQYw8MJ2O2_jeNOIjOrWFN_fzAl3cm01KzvPMskQYg_oXqwogZEHf4AnyTbZvN7quFFbGXqwtD92dZL9dDQ2OLDf/s400/IMAG4945.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> Bags can be placed in rebar containers and then filled with oysters and closed.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPI9yj1IoavgRv881lo-dWNiWbUKcS1_DTstiiAxTP8dOiekEiKcfsPWWg4Fkw7yJGfxh9zc3o40Aatz2-l4cUiIWWX5Nyu7Zw-S7NONpFLmV2EVRcKByhXeKaAJ7M1L1ClI8pzYlz/s1600/IMAG4322.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529753732601825874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPI9yj1IoavgRv881lo-dWNiWbUKcS1_DTstiiAxTP8dOiekEiKcfsPWWg4Fkw7yJGfxh9zc3o40Aatz2-l4cUiIWWX5Nyu7Zw-S7NONpFLmV2EVRcKByhXeKaAJ7M1L1ClI8pzYlz/s400/IMAG4322.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> Notice the rebar pins that keep the bags in place, also notice the black rubber strap with the "s" hook, it has and end that fits into the hole in the bag but won't slip out, easy to install and works nice...here's a picture of some below...we can get these if you are interested.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsj0WnuWYTdcAVAejUUUrdJEf8iW_yk55D9xm0cYbmEllhokqWEuzYPYoXnMJpDuzX0g_jJwhsqWgY87XYTwgOhMlCFKD7XfeIZQdnSO0HRIg2mnuI5_jQAKaQzVqVbCm3Gx9z4OqO/s1600/IMAG4319.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529753607911729490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsj0WnuWYTdcAVAejUUUrdJEf8iW_yk55D9xm0cYbmEllhokqWEuzYPYoXnMJpDuzX0g_jJwhsqWgY87XYTwgOhMlCFKD7XfeIZQdnSO0HRIg2mnuI5_jQAKaQzVqVbCm3Gx9z4OqO/s400/IMAG4319.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqwCU-q64SnZEZ09JyrXJNRzwe72s3Rk18HD6I3QPL7jQy7DGdwOIBD30YZsHg1X2l-awKu8uG2hIAP08FDFeTQnryUZTJS6Gi1AVBJ-MZd5DDq4MkYU-6XKpy26ZyRx3niqRuFDcJ/s1600/IMAG3438.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529753382362792498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqwCU-q64SnZEZ09JyrXJNRzwe72s3Rk18HD6I3QPL7jQy7DGdwOIBD30YZsHg1X2l-awKu8uG2hIAP08FDFeTQnryUZTJS6Gi1AVBJ-MZd5DDq4MkYU-6XKpy26ZyRx3niqRuFDcJ/s400/IMAG3438.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> Alot of companies, will harvest their markets and then store them in the water until they have an order to fill. These baskets are nice because you can pre-count your product not just pre-sort. Also, check out the triangular basket in the background, it looks like it has a pvc piece running through its center so it can spin around, I'm assuming it is for seed growout...interesting, I'll look into that.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyCC6_ZCOQvPTSAEDfq-9uFS7hfoQoXabuuGj7mAhIPPJDIqdUUpMBd7Qet8sw1xqgwomu6Nul1c_-ld-CnDbmANgE-K-CvC-mIGBEOgVRwpvrNJPA7nDiN3THOXjdMt1xyFcw4Jb/s1600/IMAG3435.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529753145885882098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyCC6_ZCOQvPTSAEDfq-9uFS7hfoQoXabuuGj7mAhIPPJDIqdUUpMBd7Qet8sw1xqgwomu6Nul1c_-ld-CnDbmANgE-K-CvC-mIGBEOgVRwpvrNJPA7nDiN3THOXjdMt1xyFcw4Jb/s400/IMAG3435.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> Close-up on the rebar pin(simple) and those bag closures.<br />
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Great video of these cages or similar ones at work...and no, this is not a local oyster farm I think its in the UK somewhere...either way cool video...notice its one buoy to several cages, deep water, and they are using the rod to close the bags...can get those if interested.<br />
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For all of you who are patiently waiting for bags to arrive the container is still scheduled to be here by the end of October begining of November. We'll post it once they are in.bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-20821603178564478942010-09-29T22:13:00.000-07:002010-09-29T23:29:16.665-07:00REMEMBER THAT SEED???<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWwhhV-88FTUwacnaH_WbijEYV4_3hAUIJYBy0E8CZQVE-d618nn1bVROCqsxO4UfXjQt8Fdfv0GSDUR68WZ1FrBJW0vOlpznOOxLC6Lu4o1iI_aMsGR_KtCb9RIzkaZHuuXyK8It/s1600/2010-05-17+13.08.13.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 235px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522576910667274866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijWwhhV-88FTUwacnaH_WbijEYV4_3hAUIJYBy0E8CZQVE-d618nn1bVROCqsxO4UfXjQt8Fdfv0GSDUR68WZ1FrBJW0vOlpznOOxLC6Lu4o1iI_aMsGR_KtCb9RIzkaZHuuXyK8It/s400/2010-05-17+13.08.13.jpg" /></a> Here's that seed from this spring ABOVE and here it is again BELOW from two days ago. We've said it before don't wait until the fall; get your seed as early as you can. If you don't want to wait on us or other guys get yourself some type of upweller system so you can get your seed direct from the hatcheries as soon as its ready.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNi4YxCfTu0dEmW4_5Giq5gxwt2TOsrdvtMylM3uH_wkLYY35MF8oMmJWYS2l7xjIuox35aAStTHDIl3wLh3V33vK_WUA5joIlopyj9GXjkMgsCwUrnnDF9kW4t6DS3156C20IdAA/s1600/IMG_20100928_163816.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522570834774510114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNi4YxCfTu0dEmW4_5Giq5gxwt2TOsrdvtMylM3uH_wkLYY35MF8oMmJWYS2l7xjIuox35aAStTHDIl3wLh3V33vK_WUA5joIlopyj9GXjkMgsCwUrnnDF9kW4t6DS3156C20IdAA/s400/IMG_20100928_163816.jpg" /></a> Now it doesn't just majically get big without some help.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwONnYfgWIl-GZpy4fMJ7l09dORzYFnsK6Tha9ZNdpcAYwknFpDmYaH8EVVSfBKcA1m6Qdeej8OAMb_S4nQyrVQyiYVP-0PHwi2XXDVdtbENsPYY21qfWJjjGvR6T3O1_pjC0nuliJ/s1600/2010-06-10+13.52.33.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522578731829332514" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwONnYfgWIl-GZpy4fMJ7l09dORzYFnsK6Tha9ZNdpcAYwknFpDmYaH8EVVSfBKcA1m6Qdeej8OAMb_S4nQyrVQyiYVP-0PHwi2XXDVdtbENsPYY21qfWJjjGvR6T3O1_pjC0nuliJ/s400/2010-06-10+13.52.33.jpg" /></a> Got to upwell. There are three tanks in this picture plus two floating upwellers in the background.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimY4d-ISSyS3wVPLcPxBXCiGK5yTiLkaw6xwZrcDNaqOFASfLLw2EsR0GuORSU9-P3yeRlPMkWFSnHZhabkRoNkTSc962EpsxaMFwzJBIFz-wwIm69rIFPPOLiyt_82rKQeQSQAG_S/s1600/2010-07-06+16.08.18.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522579106348935570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimY4d-ISSyS3wVPLcPxBXCiGK5yTiLkaw6xwZrcDNaqOFASfLLw2EsR0GuORSU9-P3yeRlPMkWFSnHZhabkRoNkTSc962EpsxaMFwzJBIFz-wwIm69rIFPPOLiyt_82rKQeQSQAG_S/s400/2010-07-06+16.08.18.jpg" /></a> We sort the seed out of the upwellers at 1/2" and send it out directly in .5"x.5" cages.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ87kapYw6k2BE1rMxM5doqw8ABSxs27Ly3kTSgRueuVYmbJ8ml9T5fSsYIjS8b_XQiKBeARYeghzj5oeQgUOsS96vPAKse8To_dxodqlNMg-ow2EhkaocVHpeIDJNt_OOG0793kdN/s1600/2010-07-13+15.26.04.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522579545172614594" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ87kapYw6k2BE1rMxM5doqw8ABSxs27Ly3kTSgRueuVYmbJ8ml9T5fSsYIjS8b_XQiKBeARYeghzj5oeQgUOsS96vPAKse8To_dxodqlNMg-ow2EhkaocVHpeIDJNt_OOG0793kdN/s400/2010-07-13+15.26.04.jpg" /></a> Then we start splitting...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFTNL6zgIL1-Ki9UoGU-PadQ6UQKK_ibScFiIVsD7OM4hdy8SIrn-nnhd2d2qw37or62VMl-Y6U644xtGFh6Wo2ARAFjSzHfFAGJ0CCNHqVshaNJaWgxUyI_5uoLgK5qL1vYVcuVp4/s1600/IMG_20100831_162215.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522580237319422578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFTNL6zgIL1-Ki9UoGU-PadQ6UQKK_ibScFiIVsD7OM4hdy8SIrn-nnhd2d2qw37or62VMl-Y6U644xtGFh6Wo2ARAFjSzHfFAGJ0CCNHqVshaNJaWgxUyI_5uoLgK5qL1vYVcuVp4/s400/IMG_20100831_162215.jpg" /></a> and sorting...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6q9j9oaUX9nxj5f1E6BjvPTc9nMis0O69XRVYTJ3Xr0Mz9uyUREy-TAhUvsTzcRxQjI3PKZsYUo2b8Clqo-zOWyTA0ruYoJgiMFQC9lY1PogMks0XzuV5Bf-qy-Kd5z9buSgA5hh8/s1600/2010-07-27+11.56.35.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522583501958651090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6q9j9oaUX9nxj5f1E6BjvPTc9nMis0O69XRVYTJ3Xr0Mz9uyUREy-TAhUvsTzcRxQjI3PKZsYUo2b8Clqo-zOWyTA0ruYoJgiMFQC9lY1PogMks0XzuV5Bf-qy-Kd5z9buSgA5hh8/s400/2010-07-27+11.56.35.jpg" /></a> and building lots of .5"x.5" cages...we had a lot of seed...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi67A0bcpX3Ox1T96LvDK1LpGTNeW0E3dzDra_bvp5-WuoWKjAXwrkjC_4xo3Bcn8uKlXwv-LYuiQW7Pb0ouzQMqpJQBVWpWtbTv-mCB7x4zOzVEY0Q11VoVWJ7NiuDmU3NG6h2r08e/s1600/IMG_20100831_162307.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522580629850141810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi67A0bcpX3Ox1T96LvDK1LpGTNeW0E3dzDra_bvp5-WuoWKjAXwrkjC_4xo3Bcn8uKlXwv-LYuiQW7Pb0ouzQMqpJQBVWpWtbTv-mCB7x4zOzVEY0Q11VoVWJ7NiuDmU3NG6h2r08e/s400/IMG_20100831_162307.jpg" /></a> more sorting and splitting....<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqnSZ3z-b_H3sBpWjwEMbx92B7mojWUqd6WY0gSA-e1wvUxWuf3NIh9W_npZjxLobnbovwsJb-lxaLpf596a8KkPNt5ngl9d1eRAYh16A-_3osnly0JIjLMhFIMT-Oqick7f64R_tr/s1600/IMG_20100831_162330.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522581322474674834" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqnSZ3z-b_H3sBpWjwEMbx92B7mojWUqd6WY0gSA-e1wvUxWuf3NIh9W_npZjxLobnbovwsJb-lxaLpf596a8KkPNt5ngl9d1eRAYh16A-_3osnly0JIjLMhFIMT-Oqick7f64R_tr/s400/IMG_20100831_162330.jpg" /></a> lots more...its exponetial...1-2-4-8-16 and so on until you reach that final density for growout.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-dY6X9cIYx_sQipOXXuRKylZazyP0xKBsnyC1rbhOlCUftjTwW49gchorbIuZFmPv6-1WYzpoYSGT9bWxGX3agX03MpdEuLUtlcA33srOdCTBvuvde4FKTG-fmlJQc_WSduWsqLH/s1600/IMG_20100831_162320.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522581691628148802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-dY6X9cIYx_sQipOXXuRKylZazyP0xKBsnyC1rbhOlCUftjTwW49gchorbIuZFmPv6-1WYzpoYSGT9bWxGX3agX03MpdEuLUtlcA33srOdCTBvuvde4FKTG-fmlJQc_WSduWsqLH/s400/IMG_20100831_162320.jpg" /></a> cages coming in<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHxwEoIc-g5BOG_1aGcsr19gFpHtdan7KDWcREX_OXUK0VsCjxyfc5frGYA-M9HPVmfYJCjsnA7XyqqbxltW5Lr0rJs3pNPZnHmkPbP-1G_SE-S5IstPUO0TTdxLmonQ4ZQGiHUBY/s1600/2010-07-15+11.03.52.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 299px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522582006334915362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHxwEoIc-g5BOG_1aGcsr19gFpHtdan7KDWcREX_OXUK0VsCjxyfc5frGYA-M9HPVmfYJCjsnA7XyqqbxltW5Lr0rJs3pNPZnHmkPbP-1G_SE-S5IstPUO0TTdxLmonQ4ZQGiHUBY/s400/2010-07-15+11.03.52.jpg" /></a>Splitting seed on the farm, we do this twice before it comes back in for sorting.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHoA79qst8o1pwzw-mTbb-Tvfr6R5bTTbHLhq7I06Z7wTWmnEiObXmFyFUFUzkypSiNNEI4LX_0dgew2W2zKWE7VQ9YYAwFOuWEniAUUL_D3rsFDUEitZUmp-4vtM_yHC8L4aC20wn/s1600/IMG_20100826_081645.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 299px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522583099616411874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHoA79qst8o1pwzw-mTbb-Tvfr6R5bTTbHLhq7I06Z7wTWmnEiObXmFyFUFUzkypSiNNEI4LX_0dgew2W2zKWE7VQ9YYAwFOuWEniAUUL_D3rsFDUEitZUmp-4vtM_yHC8L4aC20wn/s400/IMG_20100826_081645.jpg" /></a> Older seed coming in to be sorted, it will go back out in two different grades typically.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglf8swv0vH3hFh6iBlXH0Jc7dEpm1VfWEaDwlfIShEMfd_2Apl22XvakmscZF_TUmxNdH9vjcIFRfaSeyJl24r-lENJan9GOt1cOYrYGO5dRNmbZ5Vgo8vUmsmmaH_J_StuHGuqF3P/s1600/IMG_20100825_112739.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522588147730073250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglf8swv0vH3hFh6iBlXH0Jc7dEpm1VfWEaDwlfIShEMfd_2Apl22XvakmscZF_TUmxNdH9vjcIFRfaSeyJl24r-lENJan9GOt1cOYrYGO5dRNmbZ5Vgo8vUmsmmaH_J_StuHGuqF3P/s400/IMG_20100825_112739.jpg" /></a> Running older seed in QuickTube...huge help, it mows through a hopper of oysters like this and you end up with a good pre-cull for later...we are selling this stuff right now, it blew up over the last month.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6mOhgVyR9BO2UKZVqZpa6tZmBISz822XfX1otxAz4FwWXtEyPUPMNZY1D6oghjEkWRUNau5fQedhMmu1VEEeNxQztfBRA5o7lxNLNnrUa7zJhehvoR3ujv99OkuL_IBaveyf5eneg/s1600/2010-07-13+15.26.13.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522583915487243618" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6mOhgVyR9BO2UKZVqZpa6tZmBISz822XfX1otxAz4FwWXtEyPUPMNZY1D6oghjEkWRUNau5fQedhMmu1VEEeNxQztfBRA5o7lxNLNnrUa7zJhehvoR3ujv99OkuL_IBaveyf5eneg/s400/2010-07-13+15.26.13.jpg" /></a>Splitting again...this is the KEY to having beautiful oysters in short order... but you need to be on it every two to four weeks depending on how fast your stuff is growing...2-3weeks for us.bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-54864104841110572792010-05-28T14:34:00.001-07:002010-05-28T14:43:25.402-07:00GOT SEED????<span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>OYSTER SEED IS AVAILABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!</strong></span><br />CALL STEPHANIE AND ASK FOR PRICING AT 804-338-6530<br /><br />If you have an order in with us we should be contacting you soon. If you just need a few thousand for your garden, call Steph and swing over and pick them up. Don't forget we are at the Irvinigton Farmers Market every month with all of our goodies. That is the first Saturday of each month until November.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_a67LraH4blGrOqyelWdKElm2Nd3p7qU47RazKfO9KXEg818QINhyxHvX-mf8mvAvvnqnmH8kLsUI4RmvLIyCre9ps2FXQ3uMOk08angyn-qmnh87hFfCpFUqoEiZgYERMO1KyVjT/s1600/2010-05-17+13.08.13.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 235px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476439044304849250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_a67LraH4blGrOqyelWdKElm2Nd3p7qU47RazKfO9KXEg818QINhyxHvX-mf8mvAvvnqnmH8kLsUI4RmvLIyCre9ps2FXQ3uMOk08angyn-qmnh87hFfCpFUqoEiZgYERMO1KyVjT/s400/2010-05-17+13.08.13.jpg" /></a> This is how small the seed was after we had it for a week...it was half that size to start. Your seed will been sorted and ready for you at whatever size you are looking for...3/16", 1/4", 1/2" and up. Prices vary by size.bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-21649420358006522622010-04-22T10:13:00.000-07:002010-04-22T10:56:49.590-07:00Splitting Seed in Half by Half Cages<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUyX2hjqWodq36kRMZ0kahiJQmkvrqjBHlL6UgYLil3eCNZpx6cv3uSQdm_4Fu-X3DWtZpWsHMKlOz-uwQu5sXXC_xM3KUMiyv-qkorJrhUEfh_0bIXGFp8Io2bXRxQHExxoFckqpt/s1600/2010-04-22+09.30.05.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463016277672604690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUyX2hjqWodq36kRMZ0kahiJQmkvrqjBHlL6UgYLil3eCNZpx6cv3uSQdm_4Fu-X3DWtZpWsHMKlOz-uwQu5sXXC_xM3KUMiyv-qkorJrhUEfh_0bIXGFp8Io2bXRxQHExxoFckqpt/s400/2010-04-22+09.30.05.jpg" /></a><br />Probably the thing that trips up most new oyster farmers is falling behind on seed work. </p><p>When oysters, especially when they are young, have warm water and lots of food they grow <strong><span style="color:#000000;">FAST!!!</span></strong> If you loaded a bag about a quater full of 1/2" seed today in about two weeks during the growing season you could easily have 1/2 to 3/4 full bag of oysters. If you let that go another two weeks you'll have a solid brick of oysters and the beautiful minature half shell style oysters will start to get real crazy looking as they run into one another reaching for more water and room. It can be an expensive and discouraging mistake to make.<br />After years of fighting bags and working our tails off to stay on top of our seed (often to no avail)we finally started using .5"x.5" low profile cages to do all of our seed work out on the farm. </p><p>Now, we haven't completely gone away from bags because when the seed is humming out of the upweller and it needs a place to go yet its too small for .5"x.5" we put them in 4mm bags. We'll let them ride there for two weeks then into the half by halfs if we are in a pinch. The best scenario is to run them long enough in the upweller so they can go directly into the half by half cages.<br />A couple of things are great about the half by half cages...<br />1. Holds a lot of oyster seed<br />2. Easy to open and close<br />3. Can be split out on the water in a rapid fashion<br />4. Can hold the oysters all the way to a size compatible with our 1x1 cages<br /><br /><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhieS5VY1Gy75QWLhLlledTWSHaSrRfE2xEQQnLO53AAUC2wJJdLo2bjp4ax9bPJYgCasr43izZD09q5j0HgWbZmEPtkBE7GahVs5CZECAw_m7M4o8wNnvqd0VCGTSsqin4nM0yivcS/s1600/2010-04-22+09.32.06.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463016655918858802" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhieS5VY1Gy75QWLhLlledTWSHaSrRfE2xEQQnLO53AAUC2wJJdLo2bjp4ax9bPJYgCasr43izZD09q5j0HgWbZmEPtkBE7GahVs5CZECAw_m7M4o8wNnvqd0VCGTSsqin4nM0yivcS/s400/2010-04-22+09.32.06.jpg" /></a> When we are doing seed splits we will hoist a cage on deck and dump it on the bow as seen in these two pictures.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirkJQzxFgVAMhU5lBqTHhOesCToTk0X02rIhZqeI_D-r-wSDrsQcNA8YOxrwtcJS97WJ9JwPIpGsVPeM5FOUlZLUAvj6fhyphenhyphenhTSEQjv55jaOa73auqA5BU6kmAoaEltgmfTPAuftizf/s1600/2010-04-22+09.32.15.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463017032811815938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirkJQzxFgVAMhU5lBqTHhOesCToTk0X02rIhZqeI_D-r-wSDrsQcNA8YOxrwtcJS97WJ9JwPIpGsVPeM5FOUlZLUAvj6fhyphenhyphenhTSEQjv55jaOa73auqA5BU6kmAoaEltgmfTPAuftizf/s400/2010-04-22+09.32.15.jpg" /></a> Once its on the bow we will fill orange bushels to a desired level, usually 3/4's full and we'll use that volume as our guage for reloading the cages to go back in the water. So we will add 3/4's of a bushel to the top and bottom of a lowpro cage.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1DpOmUoWj5DHSYSfaZC3Z9dhw3fej-7HXjEG73LZU0KZ7Ky_e9sp4ti3i2IiudmRAwDgUDBfEOS2k5W000fplnPCekTKC8XQ1sEYv08c2q0Klw_hIOdQrPSzh7glu8QAoKF7XETRj/s1600/2010-04-22+09.34.24.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 299px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463017401673685634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1DpOmUoWj5DHSYSfaZC3Z9dhw3fej-7HXjEG73LZU0KZ7Ky_e9sp4ti3i2IiudmRAwDgUDBfEOS2k5W000fplnPCekTKC8XQ1sEYv08c2q0Klw_hIOdQrPSzh7glu8QAoKF7XETRj/s400/2010-04-22+09.34.24.jpg" /></a> The amout of oysters that are left over will vary depending on how long you waited to do a split, but those oysters as seen in the picture above will go in another empty cage that we brought out with us. If you want to cut the bill on your seed just hang the bushels over the side and shak'em up until they are nice and clean, we only do that if we let a cage get really loaded or if there is just a lot of junk and we want to rinse it out of the oysters for a fresh start.</p><p><br />Check out the video...<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/K1StWBdWeUw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/K1StWBdWeUw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><br />The bottom line seems to be no matter what you end up doing stay on top of giving your oysters room to grow.bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-64357307175534549552010-02-05T06:30:00.000-08:002020-05-29T12:09:25.490-07:00UPWELLING AND UPWELLERS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglCM5PBmPp-1M09cxG_mB8MRgmx1Yf3HyvgPWhVxgvJNAugXLEhEk7ZQqrxVNec1kq3e_771aKERV3TPqZuKl6JxzcEGFXTx8mubRi29HM2jmF6A16Uqw0x1T-YZ7DhcNcrGlh8g2P/s1600-h/GROWTH+RESULTS.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434789756961383394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglCM5PBmPp-1M09cxG_mB8MRgmx1Yf3HyvgPWhVxgvJNAugXLEhEk7ZQqrxVNec1kq3e_771aKERV3TPqZuKl6JxzcEGFXTx8mubRi29HM2jmF6A16Uqw0x1T-YZ7DhcNcrGlh8g2P/s400/GROWTH+RESULTS.jpg" style="display: block; height: 211px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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If you want to grow a large volume of oysters you need to buy a bunch of seed and at <strong>$25/1000</strong> a million oysters gets expensive. So this would be the first reason to have your own upweller. An upweller allows you to purchase seed directly from a hatchery at a much smaller size and price. Right now 1-2mm seed from a hatchery will run you anywhere from $7-9/1000 based on strains and genetic characteristics (<a href="http://chesbayoysterco.blogspot.com/2009/04/quick-lesson-in-genetics.html">triploid/diploid</a>). Picture with penny shows 2mm seed.<br />
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Some hatcheries will even go a little cheaper by selling it to you a bit smaller say .5mm, this gets a little tricky for some because .5mm is SUPER SMALL!! This stuff acts like dust once it gets dry and will blow away.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">What is upwelling and why does it work?</span></strong><br />
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You can upwell or downwell; one moves water up, one moves water down...the diagram explains it better.<br />
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When you are trying to set spat on micro-culch (tiny pieces of oyster shell) to get single oysters a method known as downwelling is used and is most frequently a closed system (recirculating water). Once the spat are set upwelling is used and it can be an open or closed system but the methods we will refer to are all open systems or flow through.<br />
Upwelling brings a constant supply of nutrient rich water past your animals. All they need to do is open up and feed, which they do constantly as long as the food is in the water. This method produces hearty oysters in short order that continue to feed at a rapid pace when placed out on the farm.<br />
When running large quantities of oysters we recommend a combination of two systems, bucket upwellers for handling the small 1-2mm seed from the hatchery and larger floating upwellers for 1/4"and up. We upwell to a size that will seive off a 1/2" screen then it goes out to the farm.<br />
So if upwelling is so fast why not run the oysters up to a larger size?<br />
The answer is efficiency. There is a sweet spot between size and volume and once you start to get past the 3/4" size oysters you begin to run out of space rapidly and can run into ugly anoxic situations especially as the water heats with summer temperatures. Its doable but you will need more upwelling units or silo space.<br />
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Since our spat comes so small we use a bucket upwelling system first.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The two pictures above show the tank upweller that we build and sell. We do our own fiber glass work and the tank upweller can be purchased assembled ready to go, as a kit, or just the tank with or without holes.</td></tr>
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As you can see in the picture its a series of buckets (in this case literal 5 gal buckets) that have mesh in the bottom and hold the seed. The buckets are in 4'x10' tanks. Water is pumped into the tank from a submersible pump (low pressure high flow) which fills the tank and the only way for the water to escape is to pass up through the buckets, taking the algae rich water passed the young oysters. The water is then sent back into the bay. Bucket upwelling is a simple principle that can be applied to any size tank, container, or bucket. This method is great for handling small seed but in order to get speed and volume it is essential to move to a floating upweller system. <br />
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We recommend and offer our 27" version of the floating upweller system. 27" is the size of the silos in this unit. We can produce custom size silos, as we do our own glass.<br />
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A floating upweller operates on the same upwelling principle as explained above but on a larger scale. In this case a fan pump removes water from a trough, the trough is filled back up by water flowing up and through 8 individual silos and the seed sits on mesh in the silos. The system sits in an 8 'x 20' floating dock and can handle 1 million animals/ per unit with ease.<br />
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We run upwards of 10 million seed through our system in a nursery season and use three tank upwellers and four floating upwellers.<br />
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We use this many units so we can take large quantities of seed from the hatchery all at one time (4-6 million at a whack). If you can space out your seed purchases you can get away with fewer units.<br />
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Also, note that we do not use doors, over the years we found them to be a hassle.<br />
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Bonuses to floating upwellers...<br />
- cheap to run<br />
- high rates of growth<br />
- high animal capacities<br />
They are inexpensive to run because you are moving the water laterally so gravity and equilibrium take care of the rest of the work. <br />
We offer all of this equipment completely assembled, in kit form, or by individual components.<br />
Want the tank and get your own buckets or just all of the glass and you'll get the other hardware, we can do that as well.<br />
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<br />bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-67152894767067398822010-01-08T06:23:00.000-08:002020-01-15T09:52:23.734-08:00SPAT ON SHELL EQUIPMENT<span style="color: black; font-size: 180%;"><strong> SPAT ON SHELL</strong></span><br />
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One of the hottest things going right now is the ability to set oysters on old shell and plant them on your lease. The yield so far has been for every bushel planted 2-3 bushels are harvested, and that is in 12-18 months. Below is a list of some of the things we carry that you might need to do <strong>SPAT ON SHELL</strong> ...<br />
oyster shells<br />
shell washing machine (<span style="color: black;"><strong>QuickTube</strong> <strong>Sorter</strong></span>)<br />
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tanks (fiberglass 4x8x2 or 4.5x10x2)<br />
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filter bags<br />
shell bag material 1000' roll<br />
a blower<br />
eyed larvae <br />
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Here is the link to the all inclusive spat on shell "HOW TO" guide published by the state <a href="http://web.vims.edu/adv/frg/FinalSpatonShell%20Project.pdf?svr=www">http://web.vims.edu/adv/frg/FinalSpatonShell%20Project.pdf?svr=www</a><br />
We can take care of all of your needs in this department. Again, we can help you if you want a bushel of spat on shell already set or if you want to do hundreds of bushels on your own.<br />
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<strong>SHELL BAG MATERIAL</strong> (sometimes called OSN1)<br />
Can be used for spat on shell, shoreline stabilization, or natural spat collection. <br />
Below is a bagging operation, all you need is a 6" piece of PVC and a shovel.<br />
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Below are some pictures of shell bags in action. <a href="http://www.penderwatch.org/">PenderWatch & Conservancy </a>(all volunteers) created these shell bag reefs with shoreline stabilization and restoration in mind and we'd say they hit a homerun. When you can create a living shoreline for stabilization with oysters at the base and all things that live on or around oysters... you can't do much better.<br />
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Here are a few facts:<br />
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The reef is on the western side of the Intracoastal Waterway in Pender County, NC. The reef has two sections, each having about 400 shell bags. The reef was built in August 2008. The objectives were to support oysters and other creatures and to stop marsh erosion from boat wake on the ICW.<br />
The water in these pictures is spat rich. Shells put in the water and kept relatively clean during the spawning season will catch the spat. The oysters in this region grow intertidally. The tidal range is about 3 feet on average.<br />
PenderWatch operates 6 shell drop-off points. They expect to collect something over 1,000 BU between Sept 1, 2009 and May 15, 2010.bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-46652725435186341212010-01-08T06:04:00.000-08:002010-01-08T06:19:12.766-08:00ARTICLE ON FDA'S ATTEMPT TO BAN RAW OYSTER SALES<strong><span style="font-size:180%;">RAW DEAL</span></strong><br /><span style="color:#000000;">January 5, 2010</span><br /><br />The original article can be found at <a href="http://www.seafoodbusiness.com/index.asp?ItemID=4266&rcid=180&pcid=178&cid=180%0A%0A%0A%0A%0A">SeafoodBusiness.com </a><br /><br />Oyster community rallies against FDA efforts to rein in raw oyster consumption<br />By James Wright<br />There are many ways to eat an oyster — smoked, fried, roasted, baked, boiled, broiled, stewed or steamed. Aficionados, though, believe less is more and want their half shells raw, with Mother Nature as chef de cuisine. The federal government, on the other hand, believes slurping raw shellfish is risky business and in October proposed that all oysters from the Gulf of Mexico undergo post-harvest processing (PHP) during the warmer months to kill the Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, a naturally occurring organism that can cause serious — and potentially fatal — gastrointestinal illnesses. Essentially, the feds want to ban raw Gulf oysters for six to eight months a year.<br /><br />The U.S. Food and Drug Administration contends that mandating validated PHP methods would increase food safety, preventing foodborne illnesses and deaths: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 15 deaths occur annually due to contaminated raw shellfish. The oyster community counters that part of its Southern cultural and culinary heritage is under attack and that current state-mandated health warnings — not to mention an established interstate shellfish monitoring system — are sufficient means of protection and that illnesses are unfortunate, but rare. When retailers, wholesalers, restaurateurs and even Congressmen voiced emotional opposition to the FDA’s proposal, the agency in mid-November sidestepped a firestorm of controversy and seemingly backed off its plans to institute mandated PHP for the 2011 oyster harvest.<br /><br />Yet the possibility of the FDA cracking down hard on half shells is still very real — as are the fears of going out of business for many small, family-owned companies along the Gulf Coast, where nearly two-thirds of U.S. oysters are produced. But there’s more than oyster supplies and prices at stake: The freedom to choose and the role of government in consumers’ everyday lives are at the heart of this debate, which is sure to continue for months as the FDA assesses the feasibility and economics involved with implementing PHP controls, after which it is expected to push its agenda once again.<br /><br />“It’s an FDA retrenchment, not a retreat,” says Mike Voisin, president of oyster processor Motivatit Seafoods in Houma, La. “They’re not backing off.”<br /><br />A new approach<br /><br />The controversy began on Oct. 17, when Michael Taylor, senior advisor to the FDA commissioner, addressed the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC) in Manchester, N.H. Taylor stunned attendees by announcing that the agency would soon implement a new raw shellfish policy, voicing his disappointment that a targeted 60 percent reduction in Vibrio vulnificus-related illnesses had not been achieved in California, Florida, Louisiana and Texas.<br /><br />“The time has come for a new approach,” Taylor argued, adding that the FDA would require oyster processors to employ one of four approved PHP techniques: high hydrostatic pressure, mild heat pasteurization, individual quick freezing (IQF) and low-dose gamma irradiation. “Seldom is the evidence on a food-safety problem and solution so unambiguous,” Taylor added.<br /><br />Reaction to the FDA’s new get-tough stance was anything but ambivalent. During a Nov. 13 press conference with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) with Louisiana and Florida oyster suppliers at his side, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said the proposal was excessive, like “trying to kill a gnat with a sledgehammer.” Oyster fishermen, wholesalers, restaurant operators and food lovers alike united in their outrage and set up online petitions such as SaveOurShellfish.org, hoping that a cascade of complaints would force the agency to scrap its idea. Thousands of signatures have been collected.<br /><br />The interstate shellfish-safety network was also not impressed. ISSC Executive Board Chairman J. Michael Hickey wrote a letter on Nov. 2 to the FDA, saying he was “surprised, confused and very disappointed” by the agency’s about-face without the group’s input. The ISSC works collaboratively with shellfish-producing states as the primary monitor of water quality and molluscan shellfish safety, and has operated with a memorandum of understanding with the FDA since 1982. Saying the FDA was obligated to communicate with the ISSC before plotting a new policy course, Hickey contended that some states would likely choose not to enforce the federal policy, which could only harm efforts to curb shellfish-related illnesses.<br /><br />The FDA’s proposal, to many in the oyster industry, was nothing short of betrayal at a time when fishermen and their families from Texas to Florida are struggling to survive, many of them lamenting poor landings from oyster habitats destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008.<br /><br />“I’ve sat next to these people [at FDA] for 25 years, the last 10 when they’ve concurred with the actions of the ISSC,” says Voisin. “Just in September, they said only at-risk groups should be concerned. In October, they go way off the reservation. To wake up one morning and see the 180-degree turn … it’s still shocking to me.”<br /><br />One billion served<br /><br />The risks from eating raw oysters have been known for many years, and the FDA’s mandatory PHP proposal wouldn’t be the first drastic measure taken to prevent shellfish-related sicknesses. While even the healthiest person can become ill from eating an oyster contaminated with the Vibrio vulnificus or Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria, certain people with compromised immune systems — individuals with liver disease such as cirrhosis, chronic kidney disease, iron disorders or diabetes — are considered to be at an even greater risk of contracting the severe or fatal gastrointestinal illness known as vibriosis. Opponents of the FDA plan say the agency’s own research indicates that virtually all shellfish-related deaths happen to members of at-risk populations.<br /><br />“It’d be putting a public health remedy on a private health problem,” says Voisin, who argues that the 15 deaths recorded annually from raw oyster consumption represent a tiny percentage of the roughly 1 billion raw oyster servings consumed in the United States each year. Voisin says FDA should educate consumers of the risks, much like they did when diabetes from excessive sugar consumption became a huge problem in the 1950s and numerous artificial sweetener options became available. “We didn’t ban the traditional product because an at-risk community could die as a result,” adds Voisin. “We said they mismanaged their personal health problem.”<br /><br />It’s currently up to individual states whether to require restaurants to post warnings about the risks associated with raw oyster consumption on menus or on signs; the raw bar has long operated with an eat-at-your-own-risk policy, with even the most courageous diners aware of the old saw about only eating raw oysters during months with an “r” in it. Oyster suppliers say advancements in shellfish handling, refrigeration and distribution have made that aphorism more of an old wives’ tale rather than sage advice — although the FDA would beg to differ.<br /><br />“We no longer believe that measures which reduce this hazard, but fall well short of eliminating it, such as improvements in refrigeration, are sufficient to meet the purpose of the regulation, given the severity of the hazard and the availability of post-harvest processing technologies,” Taylor said in his ISSC address.<br /><br />Despite outcries from the industry, chefs and consumers, a ban on raw oysters during warmer months has some measure of support among special-interest channels. The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest in October listed oysters among the 10 “riskiest” foods that Americans eat and for years has lobbied for preventative measures. Using FDA data, CSPI identified 132 outbreaks from oyster consumption that resulted in 3,409 illnesses since 1990.<br /><br />“The lives snuffed out prematurely by contaminated oysters should not be coldly dismissed by the shellfish industry or by their allies in Congress as the ‘cost of doing business,’” says CSPI senior staff attorney David Plunkett, decrying a bill titled The Gulf Oyster Protection Act, filed by Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) in response to the FDA proposal. “The industry has known for years how to prevent these deaths with readily available post-harvest processing techniques. Over 250 people have become ill and half of those have died since 2001, and if this industry-supported legislation passes, the toll of preventable death and disease caused by contaminated oysters will continue to rise.”<br /><br />Kevin Begos, director of the Franklin County Oyster & Seafood Task Force in Apalachicola, Fla., says the CSPI has “no clue” about how the oyster industry works.<br /><br />“It’s none of CSPI’s business to tell consumers what type of oysters they should choose. It’s incredibly arrogant of them,” Begos says. “There are people who choose to skydive, believing their parachutes will always open. I would never ride a motorcycle, but I don’t think we should ban them.”<br /><br />With oysters, the FDA argues, one number speaks volumes: zero. Both FDA and CSPI are trumpeting the success of a 2003 California law that prohibited Gulf oysters from entering the state during summer months unless they had undergone some form of PHP treatment. Between 1991 and 2001, California recorded 40 deaths due to Vibrio vulnificus. Since 2003, no deaths have occurred, according to the FDA, a statistic that emboldened the agency in using California as a policy template.<br /><br />A mom-and-pop industry<br /><br />FDA’s primary duty is to promote safety and to eliminate food- and drug-related deaths. Its mandate is not to ensure the survival of shellfish businesses, which argue that mandatory PHP would destroy small companies, harm jobs and tourism and further slow the economy in an already struggling area. Before the FDA vowed to study the Gulf oyster industry’s ability to implement mandatory PHP systems and potential alternatives, something that ISSC demanded, Taylor estimated that 100 percent of production during the warmer months could be handled, far more than the 15 percent that he said currently undergoes treatment.<br /><br />Oyster suppliers say that is a major miscalculation.<br /><br />“That’s completely wrong; it’s a myth,” says Begos, adding that the region’s true PHP capacity is closer to 5 or 10 percent of production and that most plants shut down from May to September because they cannot adequately process less-meaty summer oysters. The Gulf Oyster Industry Council estimates PHP oysters account for less than 10 percent of overall production.<br /><br />An FDA spokesperson told SeaFood Business that statements regarding its initial 100 percent estimate were “taken from industry assurances prior to the FDA’s announcement of its intention to make a policy change” and that the agency would work with ISSC, state regulators, the industry and others to better understand the challenges. Its assessment, which should be complete by the ISSC’s March board meeting, will delve into the costs associated with setting up processing technologies, which sources say are considerable.<br /><br />After years of innovation and experimentation, Motivatit Seafoods developed a reliable system that kills Vibrio with 45,000 pounds per square inch of pressure and also shucks the oysters, which are then held together with a gold-colored band for distribution. But even a company as large as Motivatit, which is heavily invested in HPP and is considered a pioneer with the technology, processes only half its oysters. “Even we would be affected; it’s pretty significant,” Voisin says.<br /><br />Some processors quick-freeze small portions of their total production, and only a few employ low-heat pasteurization (or a warm- and cold-water bath), as many buyers and consumers say the oyster meat can turn rubbery. Low-dose gamma irradiation, only recently approved by the FDA as a safe process, has not yet been proven to be economically feasible or market acceptable, says Voisin, whose company has completed trial batches of irradiated oysters with University of Florida researchers.<br /><br />Sal Sunseri, VP of P&J Oyster Co., which has sold oysters from New Orleans’ historic French Quarter since 1876, says efforts to curb consumption of such a “healthy, culturally significant culinary delight” are “unjustified and unprecedented.” P&J doesn’t sell treated oysters and has never been tied to a vibriosis case, Sunseri says, adding that the vast majority of oysters from Louisiana are from “mom-and-pop” companies that can’t afford to make large investments in processing technology.<br /><br />“The closest analogy is the egg industry, which has a similar matrix where [the FDA is] trying for a 60 percent reduction in illnesses, but those numbers are in the thousands of cases,” Sunseri says. “The focus should be on educating the at-risk group, not devastating a $350 million industry, one of the few No. 1 industries left in Louisiana.”<br /><br />Standing in solidarity<br /><br />A Gulf oyster ban may initially cause the most damage in the Gulf of Mexico, but oyster producers across the country are watching the developments with apprehension because they, too, fear what lengths the FDA will go to make the food supply safer.<br /><br />“The FDA’s proposed ban has all of us from all three coasts extremely concerned,” says Robin Downey, executive director for the Pacific Shellfish Growers Association in Olympia, Wash. “It is our understanding that — just a couple of days prior to Michael Taylor’s announcement — they had intended to enforce this ban across all the country. We do not know why they backed off the East and West coasts at the last minute but we fully expect that if they are successful in making this go forward that we will be next.”<br /><br />Even in far-removed regions like the Pacific Northwest and New England, the potential of a Gulf oyster ban resonates loudly — a similar bacteria, Vibrio paraehemolyticus, reaches further north, but is responsible for fewer illnesses. Bob Rheault, Ph.D., former owner of Moonstone Oysters in Wakefield, R.I., and the president of the East Coast Shellfish Growers Association, admits a restricted Gulf oyster industry could have a negligible or even positive impact on his business. But he says oyster producers are “standing in solidarity” with their Gulf Coast brethren.<br /><br />“We know if we let the FDA roll over them we are next,” says Rheault. “The FDA stated their official policy was to discourage the consumption of raw shellfish in 2004. They wanted to include Vibrio parahaemolyticus in this edict, but at the final hour thought better of it. The language they use virtually indicates that the breadth of this action will increase over time. When they do so it will be the end of the shellfish aquaculture industry as I know it.”<br /><br />This month, the oyster industry will again air out its concerns in the Capitol during the National Fisheries Institute’s annual Walk on the Hill lobbying push, which culminates at its Let the World Be Your Oyster reception on Jan. 20. The hope is that one of several pieces of legislation countering mandatory PHP will make headway.<br /><br />Jeff Tunks, chef-owner of several restaurants in Washington, D.C., including the New Orleans-style Acadiana, will host this year’s reception. An avid oyster lover and purchaser, Tunks says limits to raw oyster supplies from the Gulf would have an “unbelievably adverse affect on us serving oysters of any kind from anywhere.” Tunks pays 49 cents to $1.20 each for live, unprocessed oysters.<br /><br />“They could be two, three times that,” says Tunks if PHP was mandated. “Who’s going to pay $45 to $50 for a dozen? That’s a lot of money.”<br /><br />Few would argue that 15 deaths per year from oyster consumption is an acceptable number; even fewer would admit a zero-tolerance policy is possible. But oyster suppliers say they’re doing all they can to ensure consumer safety through education and technology improvements. What’s more, their product is safer than ever and if people want to eat them raw, as they’ve done for hundreds of years, then that’s their prerogative, not the federal government’s.<br /><br />“For those 15 people and their families, it’s a big issue,” says Tunks. “But there are so many things out there, from raw spinach and scallions with salmonella and non-pasteurized eggs with E. coli — the list is long and if we have this reaction for everything we wouldn’t be able to serve anything.”<br /><br />E-mail Associate Editor James Wright at jwright@divcom.com<br /><br />January 2010bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-78766437672702814162010-01-04T13:52:00.001-08:002010-01-11T09:24:52.142-08:00HAPPY FREEZING NEWYEAR!!!!!!OK, so the north west wind has been on us and it has been cold! We spent a chunk of the morning clearing ice out of the way so we can have access to the farm. Check out the video below. I think we will be throwing an ice eater pump over to give us a little breathing room at the dock.<br />Plus, its just day one, this weather is going to hold this way for a week or more. We'll post some pictures after Friday.<br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0UhM8vEX4DubTMKbYcebKT38wug6U1KY4c14_fyug5fYNOBs989TqBBlHb0TeJtdhAcZOeTd5TQdm-BtTU-eHM3NOJnlJTfM1IV8cQJEqJ5GUyS5vZ8GgdlEXw92x6lv9fANERw3/s1600-h/DSCN4861.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423007892319172226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0UhM8vEX4DubTMKbYcebKT38wug6U1KY4c14_fyug5fYNOBs989TqBBlHb0TeJtdhAcZOeTd5TQdm-BtTU-eHM3NOJnlJTfM1IV8cQJEqJ5GUyS5vZ8GgdlEXw92x6lv9fANERw3/s400/DSCN4861.JPG" /></a> Someone lost a crab pot.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHAmP3Adi7bepI1_Vsp6oSfgvclefpgmRuvMFbfT3QzCtxK531RkX4SvYTxwb7a4JjQ64-yB4BBlz_aLlFAmqdDyjIHgkoLlvXEn4VZnbsj9RkRqMkcMxB7T6MJ80Qxrh1VPzQE0pS/s1600-h/DSCN4860.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423009054691126242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHAmP3Adi7bepI1_Vsp6oSfgvclefpgmRuvMFbfT3QzCtxK531RkX4SvYTxwb7a4JjQ64-yB4BBlz_aLlFAmqdDyjIHgkoLlvXEn4VZnbsj9RkRqMkcMxB7T6MJ80Qxrh1VPzQE0pS/s400/DSCN4860.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fUCnH0_k9Xg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fUCnH0_k9Xg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br /></p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigr0tiTnxA_ZMpb73FVvIh6fWe_hHgWX8Fsv2F4B1lmirUFdW1yspSCmWvQFGkKteK2Nl-fCUlzVnaAIG9cvxdvrakCwYbbkbrOm6Ca8mHNbJO6iwjcJqlrlvhk8EdJHZHDPQBtBbS/s1600-h/DSCN4852.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 338px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423008601690882242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigr0tiTnxA_ZMpb73FVvIh6fWe_hHgWX8Fsv2F4B1lmirUFdW1yspSCmWvQFGkKteK2Nl-fCUlzVnaAIG9cvxdvrakCwYbbkbrOm6Ca8mHNbJO6iwjcJqlrlvhk8EdJHZHDPQBtBbS/s400/DSCN4852.JPG" /></a><br />She fired up pretty quick actually.</p><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;">FRIDAY MORNING</span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOD47Toy85WuYWifoRRqPKc-Up9d9Ujmz0CnnHb8FeqMNHFdXoMiGMuO57L3WMRWYrrklRaLKfP-dyfKKHUTkI66HTqQ3SO3d_cjmafbuivIepgoco6jYCdWCu7B1k60qgfzPQkUG7/s1600-h/DSCN4888.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424438828633170530" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOD47Toy85WuYWifoRRqPKc-Up9d9Ujmz0CnnHb8FeqMNHFdXoMiGMuO57L3WMRWYrrklRaLKfP-dyfKKHUTkI66HTqQ3SO3d_cjmafbuivIepgoco6jYCdWCu7B1k60qgfzPQkUG7/s400/DSCN4888.JPG" /></a> Had a little snow over night but the ice breaking from earlier in the week has kept our spot open. You can still see the ice in the creek with snow on it.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9EBdFMjzF2JsuyUBka56GVw5JubOXCXsAWuVSJWeTAgHm0OpiFsZU4ss0aDV6oG0qxV2cSnQfmkioNkcBPojdzaMak5z7nWtAR8EBlCDvQwiz-4yZbHP2lVctAydt9dZKE9eWl_EH/s1600-h/DSCN4894.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 188px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424439183631397778" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9EBdFMjzF2JsuyUBka56GVw5JubOXCXsAWuVSJWeTAgHm0OpiFsZU4ss0aDV6oG0qxV2cSnQfmkioNkcBPojdzaMak5z7nWtAR8EBlCDvQwiz-4yZbHP2lVctAydt9dZKE9eWl_EH/s400/DSCN4894.JPG" /></a> Birds were enjoying their new piece of temporary shore out by the channel marker of the creek.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGfv3BT8D-CFWnNwW_BxKJHkXYOyCcjTm0igQfhk0eVnbSJSZRL6v52AoNqRIylBCsaBKGoimUZ4AZjVTCvNcMG7Bj2nqNVgOe5Il3b7giLfariwja_ni4LbMyZy-N6bNev9XeWy2/s1600-h/DSCN4905.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424439860446325122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGfv3BT8D-CFWnNwW_BxKJHkXYOyCcjTm0igQfhk0eVnbSJSZRL6v52AoNqRIylBCsaBKGoimUZ4AZjVTCvNcMG7Bj2nqNVgOe5Il3b7giLfariwja_ni4LbMyZy-N6bNev9XeWy2/s400/DSCN4905.JPG" /></a>An, hour later the weather started again. We went from blue skies and no wind, to snow and 25mph out of the west, snow was falling sideways. Irv was totally coated in snow after we came in from the farm...my bad I left my phone at the dock, so no picture.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><strong>MONDAY 1/11/10<br /></strong></span>Frozen solid at the dock with two inch thick ice and the ice runs out past the farm into the main river. 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bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-90962104552544996372009-12-03T16:54:00.001-08:002009-12-03T22:28:06.860-08:00CHRISTMAS SEASON IS HERE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGTq2TcJWNmY_NPKLOosSgadXpiiM1JapGnsan2P_zgXrgPzNydfV2qoJv5_jDYmjmHOqc3vWvY0qweBXHPoFgrDPUj_DCtAUvj2jheF0AyNw-8scu2pMzyokPScz5yKHaAHBv7RhQ/s1600-h/2009-12-03+07.36.33.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411178290733127458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGTq2TcJWNmY_NPKLOosSgadXpiiM1JapGnsan2P_zgXrgPzNydfV2qoJv5_jDYmjmHOqc3vWvY0qweBXHPoFgrDPUj_DCtAUvj2jheF0AyNw-8scu2pMzyokPScz5yKHaAHBv7RhQ/s400/2009-12-03+07.36.33.jpg" border="0" /></a> Check this out! This is real live <span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>MISTLETOE</strong></span>, it fell out of the tree over the boathouse last night in a storm. Eventhough it was <strong><span style="color:#000000;">65 degrees</span></strong> out today it was a reminder that <strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Ch</span><span style="color:#006600;">ri</span><span style="color:#ff0000;">st</span><span style="color:#006600;">mas</span> <span style="color:#ff0000;">S</span><span style="color:#ff0000;">e</span><span style="color:#006600;">as</span><span style="color:#ff0000;">on</span></span></strong><span style="color:#006600;"> </span>is here.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7UDHqGE1jjj0_u4qKlXu3YMNwUNBE_6v-r6Url7tG5SwG2pqJyyRd1Or79uDtH_TMwBreBRncKVaiVt9aU8R853cJpuiV5x0-RuVLOmo3Py1WvyXvhE9rGSO_Aou-B9YUNNctbLJL/s1600-h/2009-12-03+07.37.14.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411178518863722674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7UDHqGE1jjj0_u4qKlXu3YMNwUNBE_6v-r6Url7tG5SwG2pqJyyRd1Or79uDtH_TMwBreBRncKVaiVt9aU8R853cJpuiV5x0-RuVLOmo3Py1WvyXvhE9rGSO_Aou-B9YUNNctbLJL/s400/2009-12-03+07.37.14.jpg" border="0" /></a> More mistletoe (the leafy clumps) in the tree it fell out of<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYoHb336nR9ubAf6fP4h4x1JngZYWNcofAmR_u63UFM_2ztvY2bg0NPcktngk-MNvhY7SbzQcTlRsBaU9tlkj_lIebkSNjN7I4ZwbIdVkvZUIBWD6hshA60bfMLR8P1WdwssHatLGL/s1600-h/2009-12-02+11.35.09.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411179694692534178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYoHb336nR9ubAf6fP4h4x1JngZYWNcofAmR_u63UFM_2ztvY2bg0NPcktngk-MNvhY7SbzQcTlRsBaU9tlkj_lIebkSNjN7I4ZwbIdVkvZUIBWD6hshA60bfMLR8P1WdwssHatLGL/s400/2009-12-02+11.35.09.jpg" border="0" /></a> Christmas time is a great time for oysters. If you are growing them be sure to eat some, better yet give some as a present, better still have some friends over and serve them up for them. They'll be looking to come to your house every year...as long as you have the oysters.<br />If you need some we can <a href="http://www.bayoyster.com/oysters.html">hook you up</a>.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj45bI1FPjXFpZiN9bpb2v1bkZgWR3bpYsKe2Xjds0H5mq6X20GlV1BboyZIn5tvCGJ8fBeJ9pCtNFy89QzLQaiGMtRqFyWhdS-E_IVSdnq0M9tAdFILlcSqdE8Xac5rRvATdWE_UiD/s1600-h/DSCN0727.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411180354668405282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj45bI1FPjXFpZiN9bpb2v1bkZgWR3bpYsKe2Xjds0H5mq6X20GlV1BboyZIn5tvCGJ8fBeJ9pCtNFy89QzLQaiGMtRqFyWhdS-E_IVSdnq0M9tAdFILlcSqdE8Xac5rRvATdWE_UiD/s400/DSCN0727.JPG" border="0" /></a> Another great gift is to set someone up with a little <strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;">oyster garden</span></strong> of their own. Any of these small oyster gardening set-ups are available for Christmas morning. Above, you see the taylor float and flip float, below are bags, cages, trays, flip bag, aussie bag, and the others from above.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7iP9ZhOQFGcNWciet6goCm093UgvlczsvaonCa7f2gcydanbtG2s12x0JwZegcSyU2GAsGcL61gO-7YFOlHT28ROTLzGHKFPWCxWJJ07CQAEYBHn5jEW7ZRg8dBhnA5KO28SVPMRk/s1600-h/DSCN3229.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411181007444792482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7iP9ZhOQFGcNWciet6goCm093UgvlczsvaonCa7f2gcydanbtG2s12x0JwZegcSyU2GAsGcL61gO-7YFOlHT28ROTLzGHKFPWCxWJJ07CQAEYBHn5jEW7ZRg8dBhnA5KO28SVPMRk/s400/DSCN3229.JPG" border="0" /></a> Want their garden to be complete but don't want the smell of oyster seed dieing under the christmas tree, we can give you a <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>gift certificate</strong></span> so when they are ready to put the garden in they can call us up and bring their certificate over for their seed.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_scHFVlh3AF9WtWnjcaAF-1Q8bJZF6hG3-ydBU6m25fhc6Fv22aUMNF981cpbbVSiO9Y2bRgmBPtzgxT5EiIrWmTDBPMNBXjvAN1OJvlIlsG-bpZDHY1UWiqOn4tbUGrEvnBwJEnm/s1600-h/DSCN1267.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411181195736200162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 332px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_scHFVlh3AF9WtWnjcaAF-1Q8bJZF6hG3-ydBU6m25fhc6Fv22aUMNF981cpbbVSiO9Y2bRgmBPtzgxT5EiIrWmTDBPMNBXjvAN1OJvlIlsG-bpZDHY1UWiqOn4tbUGrEvnBwJEnm/s400/DSCN1267.JPG" border="0" /></a> And finally you can always give a hat or a t-shirt, check them out on the our <a href="http://www.bayoyster.com/gear.html">web site</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">If you really want to wow them just go for the whole enchilada </span><span style="font-size:130%;">give them some</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><strong>oysters to eat</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><strong>a garden set up so they can grow their own</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><strong>a hat</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><strong>some t-shirts</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">a pair of gloves and a shucking knife so they can feel official.</span></strong> </span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><strong>Heck, we'll even throw in some <span style="color:#33cc00;">fresh mistletoe</span>!</strong></span><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;"><strong>Have a </strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;"><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">MERRY CHRISTMAS</span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;"><strong>and a </strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;"><strong><span style="color:#cc33cc;">HAPPY HOLIDAYS</span></strong></span></div>bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-1971558374682533902009-11-10T19:31:00.000-08:002009-11-10T19:41:44.249-08:00Great Article About Our Buddies on the Eastern Shore<span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;">By Lorraine Eaton<br />The Virginian-Pilot<br />© November 4, 2009<br /></span>Editor's note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to Parting Creek as "Pardon Creek" and Bayport as "Bayside."<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;">WILLIS WHARF</span><br /><br />A few weeks back, I met a new oyster.<br /><br />This oyster lived in a curiously shaped shell, cupped on the bottom, level on the top, different from the flattish oysters I'm accustomed to slurping. The meat inside looked different, too - rounded and plumpish, not quite compact, but not as spread out as other oysters.<br /><br />The cupped shape would make this a perfect oyster for shooting, I thought, but only if it delivered a satisfying oyster taste.<br /><br />So I slurped one down - and it was like no oyster I'd eaten. The meat had a rich flavor, and the pool of salty, milky liquor delivered a sensation of the sea.<br /><br />--------<br /><br />The fishmonger said these bivalves hailed from Virginia's Eastern Shore and called them Hog Island oysters.<br /><br />A few phone calls to state fisheries officials put me in touch with Pete Terry, owner of H.M. Terry Co. Terry is a third-generation waterman who raises infant oysters on a dock in Willis Wharf, about 25 miles up the Eastern Shore, then moves them to reach harvest size in Hog Island Bay.<br /><br />On an early fall day, clear and warm, Terry stood at the edge of Parting Creek near his family's Willis Wharf clam house. He looked eastward past the landscape he thinks makes his oysters taste so good.<br /><br />About a mile out, a low silhouette of trees separates the greenish water of Parting Creek from the bright blue sky. Beyond the trees flows the Machipongo River, which is fed by the salty expanse of Hog Island Bay. Two fingers of land - Hog Island and Cobb Island - are the only barriers between the bay and the endless Atlantic.<br /><br />No one lives on this land. The craggy islands and waters on the Atlantic side of the Eastern Shore, from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay to Chincoteague, are protected by a jigsaw puzzle of private organizations and government agencies and cannot be developed.<br /><br />In addition, a tidal flow of four to five feet provides a "tremendous" flushing action in the deepwater creek, Terry said.<br /><br />"This is the only place on the East Coast where there is no inland river impacting our water quality," he said. "Everything we have almost is fresh ocean water."<br /><br />--------<br /><br />Terry's grandfather harvested wild Eastern Shore oysters, canned them and sold them under the brand name Sewansecott. But a double scourge of diseases crippled the bivalve population, along with the once-storied reputation of Virginia oysters.<br /><br />Today, the Sewansecott brand is stamped on boxes of oysters that get their start on this dock in Willis Wharf in a series of 44 narrow, rectangular tanks, each 16 feet long, each filled with plastic buckets lined up lip to lip. The operation seems simple, but there's a lot of biology and technology behind it.<br /><br />Terry's partner in the oyster venture is Tom Gallivan, who studied aquaculture at the University of Maine and worked for the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.<br /><br />Standing on the dock, Gallivan explained that each bu cket holds tens of thousands of baby oyst ers. In his hand, they looked like tiny chips of pine bark.<br /><br />A pump forces the Parting Creek water that Terry talked about into the tanks and buckets. The oysters feed on the algae and phytoplankton, and the water, cleaner still because of the oysters' filtration, flows back into the creek.<br /><br />When the oysters grow large enough, Terry and Gallivan set them into mesh baskets and submerge them onto leased bottomlands on both sides of the Eastern Shore.<br /><br />Terry's oysters are seasides that grow to harvest size in Hog Island Bay. Gallivan tends his "Nassawadox Salts" on a football-sized plot of leased bottomland on Nassawadox Creek near Bayport on the west ern side. A shucking house built in 1888 still stands at the creek's edge, attesting to the long tradition of oystering in this very spot.<br /><br />The main difference between Terry's "seaside" Sewansecotts and Gallivan's "bayside" Nassawadox Salts is salinity. The baysides are about 22 parts salt per thousand, while the seasides are about 32.<br /><br />--------<br /><br />Later that day aboard the Oyster Queen, Gallivan's battered work boat, the partners pulled a basket out of the creek using an electric winch. The boat pitched to port side, and when the basket settled on the boat deck, it was covered in clots of seaweed and smelled like low tide.<br /><br />Inside, it teemed with life. Sea squirts shot water, while tiny crabs skittered for cover and a few fish flopped out. But mostly, there were oysters, hundreds of shells sticking up this way and that, slathered in chocolate-colored mud, with the distinctive cup shape.<br /><br />Gallivan explained that the shape is the result of several passes through a tumbler, where the "bill," or sharp outer edges of the oyster, is chipped off. The oysters go in the tumbler each time they are culled for size and moved into baskets with mesh walls with an increasingly wider weave. Altogether, the oysters take about two years to bring to market size.<br /><br />Terry hosed down the oysters, and Gallivan picked one up and opened it with a pocketknife. It was almost as plump as a baby's cheek.<br /><br />When the oysters reach market size, Terry and Gallivan hand-select them for packing. They are tumbled one last time and cleaned before going into 100-count boxes.<br /><br />In Willis Wharf, you can buy a 100-count box of Sewansecotts or Nassawadox Salts for $35. On this side of the Chesapeake Bay, George's Seafood in Norfolk sells Sewansecotts for $50 a box. It's a premium price, considering that wild-caught Eastern Shore oysters are going for $40 a box. Welton's Seafood Markets in Norfolk's Ghent and at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront sell them for $8.99 a dozen.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Terry and Gallivan are marketing the oysters in New York and around Raleigh, N.C. But they're catching on locally.<br /><br />"I have a lot of people ordering them," said Rick Geers, co-owner of George's Seafood. "They're the most consistent oyster I've seen in all my years in the business. There's no thing better."<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;">Lorraine Eaton, (757) 446-2697</span>, </strong><a href="mailto:lorraine.eaton@pilotonline.com"><strong>lorraine.eaton@pilotonline.com</strong></a><strong><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://hamptonroads.tv/hrtv.php?id=7100189">Check out the video that went along with the story.<br /></a></span></strong>bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-66330796189092040952009-10-28T06:48:00.000-07:002018-12-04T05:12:21.770-08:00SOME OTHER WAYS TO EAT OYSTERS<strong style="font-size: 130%;">SWEET CHILI CITRUS MIGNONETTE</strong><br />
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- Lemon zest, orange zest, ginger, white wine vinegar, chili pepper OR (Tabasco), sugar, corn syrup<br />
- Serve cold with cold half shell oysters<br />
Here it is without the sauce on the oysters, plus it is a dipping sauce, but it looks cool on them.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;">LEMON GARLIC BUTTER SAUCE</span></strong><br />
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- Butter, lemon juice, garlic salt, green onions, parmesan cheese<br />
- Serve hot with steamed oysters<br />
- Add more parmesean and maybe a little cream, then pour sauce and oysters together over angel hair pasta…NICE!<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFiZJpbL-Wmbcr4Napsph5M39qz276l2OJvCJg4kG5jd1Kk_3Jf7ChZnH0ljSS2zCDd336mTheAZ91weQZEfGfKuyDDZyDuGU3fjJGFNyYRZW9apx9_N5jTaz1zMst_RdtLACWEDMM/s1600-h/DSCN5144.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443747353318777218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFiZJpbL-Wmbcr4Napsph5M39qz276l2OJvCJg4kG5jd1Kk_3Jf7ChZnH0ljSS2zCDd336mTheAZ91weQZEfGfKuyDDZyDuGU3fjJGFNyYRZW9apx9_N5jTaz1zMst_RdtLACWEDMM/s400/DSCN5144.JPG" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 400px;" /></a> bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-484233366820904284.post-7886489729183347762009-10-09T22:41:00.000-07:002009-10-13T21:25:13.598-07:00SEAPA's NEW LINE OF OYSTER BASKETS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4E5x2zMbcGiH07GKpxbn70NZEz7HjiBwgyaVtsJoFZ7Bbi-77fINKCevIIMYrj-884NkKn8P1nPqsaKE0A4KYWSKYWLpVki69UyjORP4zVl6Q-q_erOqpNzEKKG3WiVj-XBjrKEze/s1600-h/DSCN3744.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390935496034243346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4E5x2zMbcGiH07GKpxbn70NZEz7HjiBwgyaVtsJoFZ7Bbi-77fINKCevIIMYrj-884NkKn8P1nPqsaKE0A4KYWSKYWLpVki69UyjORP4zVl6Q-q_erOqpNzEKKG3WiVj-XBjrKEze/s400/DSCN3744.JPG" /></a><br /><br />We had a visit from our buddy Shawn from <strong><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.seapa.com.au/">SEAPA</a></span></strong> this week and he left us with some killer samples of their new line of oyster baskets.<br /><br />We had messed around with SEAPA stuff in the past and weren't impressed, felt flimsy, had hard to open doors, funny colors, and we basically wrote them off. Well, our tune is way different now, <strong><span style="color:#000000;">the stuff is solid, the doors open smooth and easy, the stuff is all black (lots of anti-UV), and it comes now in multiple sizes</span></strong>...bottom line...it is now customizable to our situations and we think this gear could do well in our area.<br /><br /><br />They have two categories<strong><span style="color:#000000;"> "LONGLINE"</span></strong> and <strong><span style="color:#000000;">"MULTIPURPOSE"</span></strong>. The longline baskets are similar to the old style but the multipurpose are just that, they can be used in a variety of ways.<br /><strong><span style="color:#000000;"></span></strong><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:180%;">LONGLINE<br /></span></div></span></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtC_ySZtYDfKaYH98BhZVF4SPAKRU-bp5wN9qcpgmEVzjPd8eVCE2GJph5j_7VZizpjqc4Zv4ioJEVoYM-2vS2zziyQegGH6O6zuKlx9HDRb5pdQ2_rOz6OMKu-yncIbsCULNA1Ef/s1600-h/DSCN3760.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391094835874659218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRtC_ySZtYDfKaYH98BhZVF4SPAKRU-bp5wN9qcpgmEVzjPd8eVCE2GJph5j_7VZizpjqc4Zv4ioJEVoYM-2vS2zziyQegGH6O6zuKlx9HDRb5pdQ2_rOz6OMKu-yncIbsCULNA1Ef/s400/DSCN3760.JPG" /> <p align="center"></a></p><p></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">MULTIPURPOSE</span></strong></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9sY0oFFLk4A8mmtSBWDFnHl62rVRuUEFMxJcGTgaj4mPU45Ajxczzb9fzuGC-dWDC0Ct_XKm6y7Z5annvNKyROd9djLgw7hHJFxPmDiM2YA5Q7w-AWyzkcL2UKcschN3ugQJa5eqy/s1600-h/DSCN3750.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 399px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391095200394676466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9sY0oFFLk4A8mmtSBWDFnHl62rVRuUEFMxJcGTgaj4mPU45Ajxczzb9fzuGC-dWDC0Ct_XKm6y7Z5annvNKyROd9djLgw7hHJFxPmDiM2YA5Q7w-AWyzkcL2UKcschN3ugQJa5eqy/s400/DSCN3750.JPG" /><br /></a>The longest multipurpose basket is about 44", the post in the picture is about 4.5 feet tall.</p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcoIRtBCHetO25Hkzske1t3oe5-z-0tt3__2BqsVFuXdc2pSZ_E1ck_JyTnmIBdLSMQqVnKkZT2CykA58gsl_HkmfA4LkbdR73wih1A3xqxw-a5xI3g5pVIDqnPNjS5sIQFGHyqNQA/s1600-h/DSCN3751.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390938354853475490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcoIRtBCHetO25Hkzske1t3oe5-z-0tt3__2BqsVFuXdc2pSZ_E1ck_JyTnmIBdLSMQqVnKkZT2CykA58gsl_HkmfA4LkbdR73wih1A3xqxw-a5xI3g5pVIDqnPNjS5sIQFGHyqNQA/s400/DSCN3751.JPG" /></a></p><br /><p align="left"><br /><br /></p><br /><p align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbVMlK9w49lEYXCKdBvg4r-gRIqvgd5Vx0IEB5kpGNckOybY_DRWRyYqOXfN2AgPUJOWND37ni25clDqqvUnDMbBDJpOvmRp1Sw34UasDT5YXbAedxdPytowBYjHTmzVdWGvxpGbGB/s1600-h/DSCN3752.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390938629471557266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbVMlK9w49lEYXCKdBvg4r-gRIqvgd5Vx0IEB5kpGNckOybY_DRWRyYqOXfN2AgPUJOWND37ni25clDqqvUnDMbBDJpOvmRp1Sw34UasDT5YXbAedxdPytowBYjHTmzVdWGvxpGbGB/s400/DSCN3752.JPG" /></a></p><br /><p align="center"></p><p><br />So, the door and cap on the multipurpose basket is a bit bulky but that is done by design. Notice the square holes and the round holes in the diamond shapes. The diamond with round hole allows for stacking of the baskets so they can be locked together for ladder style hanging or just stacking, or bundling them together.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBa5YpejuaNhtZcRr9cINLgu3x585lqlym4FxrlPpIojZa7bttTgoPWNq3vozAQhopOdijismeK9RRBSP5EjagA8ItPutvyMSiIr6HZMbEsY4rhwH59-j8z5zR9g9U8TkZ-yyithB/s1600-h/DSCN3753.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391097099119810018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBa5YpejuaNhtZcRr9cINLgu3x585lqlym4FxrlPpIojZa7bttTgoPWNq3vozAQhopOdijismeK9RRBSP5EjagA8ItPutvyMSiIr6HZMbEsY4rhwH59-j8z5zR9g9U8TkZ-yyithB/s400/DSCN3753.JPG" /></a> </p><p><br />The square hole design allows for running rails across the basket to rest on racks. (photo courtesy of <a href="http://www.seapa.com.au/"><em>www.seapa.com.au</em></a>)<br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjni-YwLRTIlpKH4Vfx2JJdx5jymPSTX8xu9b-ciOjK3lXuWq1DQ5FznJYnC3h6hKjxz__-kSDoRlY0ShLBodPLJfelR1WG42fgiNZwsGU2GcQTO0gZlCoSxu1EFajLCHqacb6rqcr/s1600-h/top%2520view%2520MP%2520with%2520stakes%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 255px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392293591528675330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjni-YwLRTIlpKH4Vfx2JJdx5jymPSTX8xu9b-ciOjK3lXuWq1DQ5FznJYnC3h6hKjxz__-kSDoRlY0ShLBodPLJfelR1WG42fgiNZwsGU2GcQTO0gZlCoSxu1EFajLCHqacb6rqcr/s400/top%2520view%2520MP%2520with%2520stakes%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><br /><br />They have a new cap design on the longline baskets which was streamline and again easy to use.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9oxBnTCkWI2debPerzsHHKTd8kSrLHBkJ8Pkr_qnWSQGu2UpOIYDEAHu3oqlreMDTdwykVoh1w_H75Mi4c6CJD4NtvzGjutjjVvcH1dAmaZ8iLYYQXtE5qqdhMHoc-OwOD384mpWS/s1600-h/DSCN3757.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392291663736526834" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9oxBnTCkWI2debPerzsHHKTd8kSrLHBkJ8Pkr_qnWSQGu2UpOIYDEAHu3oqlreMDTdwykVoh1w_H75Mi4c6CJD4NtvzGjutjjVvcH1dAmaZ8iLYYQXtE5qqdhMHoc-OwOD384mpWS/s400/DSCN3757.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfJwo_XTH4ccXHuwhhzpy20s6Ry5HiwXP8wc-OfoBS1FZWSu7pfG8nsyVf-1ePvszgR7AH5y03LS846Lc-pyy0GGyFUQkte2NaruLgI19LZh9ZjJB-EBb3jhBPnLow-B2yjsToCb9/s1600-h/DSCN3755.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392292132521505218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfJwo_XTH4ccXHuwhhzpy20s6Ry5HiwXP8wc-OfoBS1FZWSu7pfG8nsyVf-1ePvszgR7AH5y03LS846Lc-pyy0GGyFUQkte2NaruLgI19LZh9ZjJB-EBb3jhBPnLow-B2yjsToCb9/s400/DSCN3755.JPG" /></a><br /><br />I still think the thing that got our attention the most besides the extra big multipurpose basket was the <strong><span style="color:#000000;">3mm seed basket. </span></strong>This thing could make seed work a snap, especially if you use it from a dock. It was a little bit more pricey because of the amount of plastic but you wouldn't need too many.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-Cv8rn-uRIrA5CpYJeVaBWUeVB-lyrKiyjPHnLtKEo8XO31437XWx0fEr7rXI96DbgNDATKhEGBhrzx9dfDasgkycS-sBnj0k2Kwqj3bnwRsZJztvYgQkn_y-q9jJg6u7nXcVgNh/s1600-h/DSCN3756.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392292497263059074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-Cv8rn-uRIrA5CpYJeVaBWUeVB-lyrKiyjPHnLtKEo8XO31437XWx0fEr7rXI96DbgNDATKhEGBhrzx9dfDasgkycS-sBnj0k2Kwqj3bnwRsZJztvYgQkn_y-q9jJg6u7nXcVgNh/s400/DSCN3756.JPG" /></a><br />At the end of this post, I have some videos about the seapa system and one shows the Australian method of doing longlines on treated pine posts...hmmm...sounds like docks and piers...if you happen to think that way, below are the clips you would/could use to attach the baskets.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh739N1d9J1W3tT36yCN_GJEDtk0W58NcMPf1Qn7J4jSEgW0lzu6dwhw4oX-bpLByj8Ei4lilJ8UWN3kRfWSl0nbcF-U4UuSBwvQCadkNBk3kKybp7ZMv-h_tFxuA-f5BeZH3rACFnj/s1600-h/DSCN3761.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 292px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392293002556384194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh739N1d9J1W3tT36yCN_GJEDtk0W58NcMPf1Qn7J4jSEgW0lzu6dwhw4oX-bpLByj8Ei4lilJ8UWN3kRfWSl0nbcF-U4UuSBwvQCadkNBk3kKybp7ZMv-h_tFxuA-f5BeZH3rACFnj/s400/DSCN3761.JPG" /></a> Otherwise, we think a rack method might work, but like everything else its all situational.<br /><br />If you want to see the baskets first hand we will have them at the <a href="http://www.vaaquacultureconference.com/"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Virginia Aquacultural Conference</span></strong> </a>Nov 13-14 2009 in Williamsburg, VA; at the <strong><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.marylandwatermen.com/">East Coast Commercial Fishermen's and Aquacultural Trade Show</a></span></strong> in Ocean City, MD Jan 29-31 2010; or just call and stop by the office to check them out.<br /><br />Oh yeah, no need to book a flight to Australia, we'll have some in shortly, if you have certain styles you are interested in speak up soon.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;">VIDEOS</span></strong><br /><br />SEAPA basket assembly... this guy is using a "jig"( aluminum angle with two welded posts) to form the tube, he is way fast but the ends still need to be snapped on which isn't too bad.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0AyKTJGQDNI&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0AyKTJGQDNI&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />The music is a little cheesy but the pictures are great. Side note, notice they don't work their oysters on the water, that is all done inland in a "shed" where they keep their hi-tech sorting and washing gear.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LjA9RifP2NI&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LjA9RifP2NI&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />This is SEAPA's video which is geared very much to longline systems but its more information.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EUuc73eIs08&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EUuc73eIs08&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>bayoysterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06238244507621182139noreply@blogger.com0