Welcome

Welcome to the SC oyster gardener's blogspot. Oyster gardeners grow oysters in cages under their docks. This is a recreational endeavor - i.e. oyster gardeners cannot sell their oysters. Oyster gardening is fun and educational. And hopefully eventually you have enough edible oysters to hold a feast for your friends. Oyster gardening is monitored/permitted by the SC Department of Natural Resources. Contact Nancy Hadley for more information on how to become an oyster gardener.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

New oyster gardeners

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
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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
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