We have three newcomers to the oyster gardening community. The Beaufort Marine Institute under the guidance of Mr. Germaine Antley and Mr. Larry Peck will be growing oysters in Wimbee Creek. Mr. Sandy Bee will be growing his oysters in Bohicket Creek at Rockville. Mr. Link Groom will be growing his oysters in Wadmalaw Sound. I will try to post an update this week on the sizes of everybody's oysters so if you have new information please email it to me.
Nancy
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Hadley dock update
Finally measured the animals this last weekend (03/01/08). Originally (12/06/07) put them in at 1.7 L/cage. The average volume this time was 3.5 L/cage. Pretty good for 3 months. I have 3 cages deployed at this time and have very low (essentially nonexistent) mortality or fouling. Modified my cages a bit (since they were open for measuring) to flatten them some so as to keep them from "bellying" quite so much. Will take pix and post them.
Paul Hadley
Paul Hadley
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Water Monitoring
Paul and Nancy Hadley have set up oyster farmers on The South Carolina Oyster Restoration and Enhancement Web Site to record water conditions at each site. This is a great way to record and keep your data. Observing the data is available to all. Click the link to get there.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Clark Sound Oyster Garden
New to the blog. New to blogging...
I'm Nancy Hadley's husband. I also work for the DNR (Physical Plant, etc.) I used to grow shrimp commercially. I, early on, worked with Dr. John Manzi of clam aquaculture research.
I have never tried to grow oysters.
I have our garden on our dock on Clark Sound. I modified the tray system to make them round tubes and that stiffened them considerably. 1.7 L or so animals are currently deployed into each of three of the tube grow-outs. I deployed them such that they're about 50 or so centimeters off the bottom pluff mud or, out of the water about 2 hr/day. I want them to have a drying period (or at least air exposed) to try to reduce fouling.
On the home page the pictures displayed are actually me and the deployment I used.
For my part, I am enjoying the opportunity to become, once more, involved in mariculture and the whole business of being involved in applied science.
Paul
I'm Nancy Hadley's husband. I also work for the DNR (Physical Plant, etc.) I used to grow shrimp commercially. I, early on, worked with Dr. John Manzi of clam aquaculture research.
I have never tried to grow oysters.
I have our garden on our dock on Clark Sound. I modified the tray system to make them round tubes and that stiffened them considerably. 1.7 L or so animals are currently deployed into each of three of the tube grow-outs. I deployed them such that they're about 50 or so centimeters off the bottom pluff mud or, out of the water about 2 hr/day. I want them to have a drying period (or at least air exposed) to try to reduce fouling.
On the home page the pictures displayed are actually me and the deployment I used.
For my part, I am enjoying the opportunity to become, once more, involved in mariculture and the whole business of being involved in applied science.
Paul
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Listing of the Oyster Farmers
Greetings,
If you would like to join in a list of SC Oyster Farmers please send your E Mail address and name to p_calhoun@bellsouth.net.
Thanks
If you would like to join in a list of SC Oyster Farmers please send your E Mail address and name to p_calhoun@bellsouth.net.
Thanks
Dead Oysters
Paul here, just got back from removing 120 dead oysters from the small mesh bag. The others in the bag didn't sound good and weighed almost nothing. Didn't look at the larger bags on this trip.
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