Oyster Shell Shipments

[Stonedfish]

This popped up in my newsfeed.
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84 truckloads of oyster shells shipped from Washington to restore Chesapeake Bay

In a cross-country effort to replenish the oyster population in Chesapeake Bay, three seafood companies partnered to ship 84 truckloads with millions of Pacific oyster shells from Washington state …

www.koin.com

 

[Wadin' Boot]

Curious why there aren't so many oysters on the East side of Puget Sound? Gonna speculate salinity, pollution, nonrecoverable over harvest last century, east Puget sound substrate too soft/too silty...

 

[Stonedfish]

Curious why there aren't so many oysters on the East side of Puget Sound? Gonna speculate salinity, pollution, nonrecoverable over harvest last century, east Puget sound substrate too soft/too silty...

Boot,
Besides what you mentioned, some possible answers to your question here.
Click on the picture below to read the article.
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[Josh]

I must not understand how oysters grow. What does having the old shells do for them?

 

[Stonedfish]

I must not understand how oysters grow. What does having the old shells do for them?

Washington Grown Oysters

 

[albula]

A huge number of the immature oysters are on the shells of the ones you harvest. Remove the shells and you eliminate the next generation.

 

[Josh]

Washington Grown Oysters

Ahhhhh, that makes sense.

Seems like a paragraph or so from there should have been included in the article.

 

[Stonedfish]

Ahhhhh, that makes sense.

Seems like a paragraph or so from there should have been included in the article.

I agree. The article could have been a bit more informative as to the benefits and purposes of placing the shells in CB.
It certainly makes sense though why we have the regulation requiring the shucked shells to be left on the beaches at public tidelands.
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