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Hurricane Ida Causes Hiccup in Oysterman’s Attempt To Provide Seed Oysters to The Gulf

Hurricane Ida Causes Hiccup in Oysterman’s Attempt To Provide Seed Oysters to The Gulf

Grand Isle aquaculture oysterman Scott Mauer can attest that even the best-laid plans to avoid disaster often go astray.  As Hurricane Ida approached Louisiana, his seed-oyster business partner Steve Pollock and him evacuated more than 10-million larva to Texas A&M University, and stored another 20-million at the LSU Sea Grant hatchery on the island. Ida managed to take out those at the hatchery and those in Texas died from unknown causes.

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Constructing An Off-Bottom Oyster Business on Grand Isle

Constructing An Off-Bottom Oyster Business on Grand Isle

Marcos Guerrero and his family are now investing in sustainable seafood coming the Gulf of Mexico oysters cage grown in the waters off Grand Isle, Louisiana.

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Louisiana Sea Grant Films Building Off-Bottom Oyster Nursery Silo Video

Louisiana Sea Grant Films Building Off-Bottom Oyster Nursery Silo Video

Most of the Louisiana oysters are farmed on reefs. This includes oyster farms that are dependent on a source of wild seed oysters, usually transplanted from public oyster grounds that historically have cyclical production.
Louisiana Sea Grant has recently completed a video demonstrating how to build an oyster nursery silo from a 55-gallon plastic drum.

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