Alternative Oyster Culture – Oyster Farming. Episode 106 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. There’s a new direction in a centuries-old industry. In this episode of Louisiana Coastal ...

Oyster Stories: Farming mollusks and creating art with their shells The Great Marsh Shellfish Company takes us behind the scenes of oyster farming while Grace Marques uses shells in her stunning ...

“What that does is it naturally tumbles the oysters inside the cages,” said Roros. “There's a part of the current process of oyster farming—such as floating bag and stack method farming—where part of ...

Alternative oyster culture, also known as "AOC," is a different way to farm oysters.Farmers buy the seed from a hatchery and grow the oysters in floating cages.

ROCKPORT — AJ Minns and his wife, Debbie, took turns scooping the first of about 270,000 oyster seed into mesh bags. Dozens of community members, friends and colleagues, invited by Minns, joined ...

Five years ago, the state approved oyster farming. Farmers produce oysters in cages instead of catching them in the wild off a reef. So far, there are only 13 permitted acres across the state.

Frank Shatz talks to Sarah Matheson Harris, owner and chief marketing officer of Matheson Oyster Co., which she runs with her husband and brother-in-law in Gloucester County.

“I can oyster next year, or I can oyster in two or three months.” This works for Curole, whose trailer can haul up to 350 oyster cages, but his business is relatively small. At the scale industry ...

The minutiae of oyster farming. Another local farm, Copps Island Oysters, founded by Norm Bloom in 1994, is one of the largest oyster farms on the East Coast. ... He grows his oysters in cages, ...

The Little Ram Oyster Co., a farm of 2 million oysters on the North Fork of Long Island, started with a Groupon. To celebrate a friend’s birthday in the summer of 2017, Stefanie Bassett and ...

Coastal Bend residents continue to play a role in shaping Texas' oyster farming industry. Gov. Greg Abbott made six appointments to the state's Commercial Oyster Mariculture Advisory Board this ...