Picasa Web Albums - Barry - UDOC

Picasa Web Albums - Barry - UDOC

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.

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

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

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.

Welcome

Welcome SC Oyster Gardeners

I am new to blogging so I think it would be great if you guys took over and ran this page! Paul Calhoun graciously offered to help administer it so I have given him administration privileges but if he wants to move it, recreate it, whatever, have at it!

I thought it would be nice if each of you logged on and posted a brief statement about your oyster garden (where are you, how did you choose to deploy) and any other info you want to share.

It might also be useful if we had a listserve of some sort where we could post emails to each other. That might be more useful than a blog. What do you think? Paul would you have time to set up something like that?

Nancy

water quality

December 6 water quality Callawassie Creek
I thought maybe we can compare notes on our results to see if any of us
are way out.
Turbidity 185
DO 7.0
Temp 12.0
Salinity 33
Taken 9:30 AM outgoing tide maybe about half way out.
Paul