oyster bank

It is commonly found near oyster banks, as well as mangrove areas.

Their swift, piratical craft could strip an oyster bank in an afternoon.

After this migration, the Bani Utbah were very close to the rich oyster banks.

If Spain decided to exploit the oyster banks, they could pay Yaqui Indians, as they had before.

A patch of seagrass lies behind the oyster bank at Mowhiti Point.

Its wreckage was recovered and, after removal of items of value, it was dumped on the Oyster Bank.

Between 1868 and 1870 he studied the ecology of oyster banks, primarily to determine the potential for oyster farming in coastal areas of Germany.

"For a couple of months there has been a barge anchored near the oyster banks, and they transport prisoners there in small boats," said Toypurnia.

She was wrecked on 21 March 1805, north of the Hunter River, Newcastle on the Oyster Bank.

More importantly, he was first to describe in detail the interactions between the different organisms in the ecosystem of the oyster bank, coining the term "biocenose".

On 29 April 1897, the Ada missed stays at Broken Bay, near Newcastle's Oyster Bank, and ran aground.

She was wrecked on the Oyster Bank at the mouth of the Hunter River while leaving Newcastle for Adelaide on 20 July 1898.

The Ada was a wooden ketch that was wrecked on the Oyster Bank at Newcastle, New South Wales.

Mecoacán is considered to be the second most important lagoon system in Tabasco with extensive oyster banks below bordered by mangrove areas which have been reduced through timber exploitation.

A fog fountain evokes the early salt marsh history of the site, with cast bronze oyster shells recalling oyster banks discovered on site during excavation for building foundations.

Many of the tidal salt marshes supported vast oyster banks that remained a major source of food for the region until the end of the 19th century, by which time contamination and landfilling had obliterated most of them.

There was a plantation called "Oyster Banks," owned by William Norvell near the boundary of Isle of Wight and Nansemond Counties in 1656, when the boundary line between the counties was run.

Much of the park is sited on landfilled tidal flats that formerly supported vast oyster banks as part of the territory of the Hackensack Indians, who called the area Communipaw and used it as a summer encampment.

It occurs in a range of other habitats including under boulders and rocks, among seaweed, on rough ground such as oyster banks, in burrows in gravelly sediments and on the rhizomes of Zostera marina in seagrass meadows.

Long after the other images of the day have dimmed - of porpoises rolling through the murky water or orange-billed birds chattering from ancient oyster banks or sand of a deserted barrier island collapsing underfoot in the incoming waves - the smell stays with you.

Originally much of the west shore of Upper New York Bay consisted of large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster banks, a major source of food for the Lenape population who lived in the area prior to the arrival of Dutch settlers.

On 7 November 1856, the ship was wrecked in a gale on Oyster Bank, Newcastle, New South Wales during passage from Newcastle to Melbourne with 640 tons of coal, under the command of Captain James McLean and with 15 crew.

You can lie in wait in a show-window, like a fourteen carat gold ring, or you can climb the side of a building like a human fly, but nothing will stop the procession, not even umbrellas flying at lightning speed, nor double-decked walruses marching calmly to the oyster banks.

In 1639 William Vassall was granted the liberty "to make an oyster bank in the North River, in some convenient place near his farm which was called the 'West Newland' and to appropriate it for his own use, forbidding all others to use same without his license."