Oyster Case Studies: Shuck Yeah!
Group 9: Savannah Snody, Nikola Carouso, Alana Mousseau and Katherine Garcia
The productivity of oyster production has been observed and measured only in recent decades. Average physical product of labor, or APL, data is one method of collecting and waging the industry’s productivity. This data is...
Typical harvesting of oysters stems from the need to cultivate a suitable environment. Specifically along the Washington coast, suitable conditions do not necessarily exist to sustain young oysters as they develop, causing a greater...
Oysters are found all over the world, ranging from areas such as Japan to Australia to the United States. Oysters are most commonly found in bays, sounds, estuaries and tidal reefs and tend to...
Bay Center Farms in Willapa Bay, Washington lays out a clear procedure on how they raise oysters and reflects the common methodologies of the Pacific Northwest. The farmers will put around 250 shells in each...
Mammals ~Including us! Boring Sponge ~Atlantic Ocean to the Bahamas ~Will make its way through the oyster by releasing chemicals that breaks down calcium carbonate and eventually the oyster dies and the sponge has...
Native to Japan, the Pacific Oyster now lives in 17 different countries. Versatile, The oyster can easily adapt to a variety to environments in temperate waters of the Pacific and Atlantic. In the United...
http://science.kennesaw.edu “Oyster Life Cycle Illustration” Image by John Norton http://science-art.com Each type of oyster has a varying type of life cycle and needs to spawn and be healthy. For example, The Olympia and the...
