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Oyster farming is an aquaculture (or mariculture) practice in which oysters are bred and raised mainly for their pearls, shells and inner organ tissue, which is eaten. Oyster farming was practiced by the ancient Romans as early as the 1st century BC on the Italian peninsula [1] [2] and later in Britain for export to Rome. The French oyster ...
Ward Oyster Company is a cage oyster farm headquartered in Gloucester County, Virginia, and one of the largest cage oyster farms on the U.S. East Coast. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Established in 1986, the company sells 4 million oysters and tens of millions of larvae each year.
Oysters feed most actively at temperatures ranging from the high 60s to the high 70s (20–26 °C). [8] Under ideal laboratory conditions, an oyster can filter up to 190 L (50 US gal) of water per day. Under average conditions, mature oysters filter 11–45 L (3–12 U.S. gal).
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While Kumamoto oysters are native to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and southern China, it was introduced to the West Coast of North America for commercial use in 1947. [5] It has not been established outside of its native range, and natural reproduction has not occurred due to its water temperature requirements, which are from 24–28 °C (75–82 °F).
Currently Washington's oyster industries annually harvest more than 7 million pounds of oyster meat at a value estimated around 70 million dollars. [2] Natural oyster beds will never be able to support the numbers needed to meet market demands, but the oyster industry has continued to endure.
Americans are shelling out more for oyster happy hours. Experts say the buck-an-oyster deal of yore is all but dead, with some noting restaurants have hiked prices as high as $2.50 apiece.
Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture [1]), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus).