seed oyster

Seed oysters are either raised in a hatchery or harvested from the wild.

They may be allowed to mature further to form 'seed oysters'.

They went through the channel, which lessens the effect on the seed oyster beds."

Using a hatchery to provide seed oysters in areas where spat set is nonexistent or unreliable.

The buy-boats might also buy seed oysters, or spat, to be planted in oyster beds.

In one method the spat or seed oysters are distributed over existing oyster beds and left to mature naturally.

The plan for the hatchery's first year of aquaculture calls for the production of five million seed oysters.

It seeds oyster beds in a lagoon leased from the Long Island Lighting Company.

He also founded the Ocean Pond Corporation on Fishers Island, which provided seed oysters.

The state has recently planted billions of seed oysters in the water off Bridgeport in order to further expand the industry, Mr. Backer added.

The group aims to harvest the seeded oysters in enough time to save them from being attacked by Dermo or MSX, within three years.

Moses Wicks is supposed to have been the first to bring seed oysters around Cape Horn and implant them in the San Leandro beds.

The Great Wicomico flows into a trap-type estuary on Ingram Bay, with a history of significant natural spat settlement and seed oyster production.

For 10 days in April, oystermen dredged up seed oysters from the Upper Bay and took them to saltier planting grounds to grow fat and flavorful.

Mr. Smith's cultured seed oysters were spawned at the Suffolk County Environmental Learning Center at Southhold.

Essex's sophisticated farming operation, situated on Coles Point in Virginia, planted seed oysters, tending and cultivating them in ponds beside the Potomac River.

But the industry relied heavily on young "seed oysters" transplanted from other waters, and by the 1950's, the combination of overfishing and deterioration of the seed beds was depleting stocks.

Seed oysters are cultivated in the Housatonic River near some of Raymark's historical disposal locations and crabs and clams may also be harvested for recreational purposes in the area.

These groups could partner up to implement business plans to assist native oyster production that can be sold for market and in the process generate funds and seed oysters for habitat and population restoration.

Recreational and commercial fin fishing in the river and in Delaware Bay continues, as well as a limited version of oyster farming, which involves planting seed oysters and harvesting them when they mature.

Although the company imports seed oysters during January, February and March to supplement its own seed, Johnson's has stopped canning oysters because the company cannot keep up with increased local demand for fresh ones.

Under its contract with the Groton Shellfish Commission, Aero will then have access to about half the seed oysters that the hatchery produces in its first year (about 2 1/2 million seeds).

Mr. Pillus said the company had initially planned on seeding oysters on the Gardiners Bay lands but had decided on clams instead because of diseases that were affecting juvenile oysters.

Until 10 years ago, when the Agriculture Department's aquaculture division began an aggressive program to seed oyster beds with cultch, as the seed shell is called, and improve the yield, oysters were a modest business in Connecticut.

In other eras, the shacks served as lookout posts for oystermen guarding their seeded oyster beds from raiders, as cabins for duck hunters and as lodges for hunting and fishing guides and their sporting parties.