Louis where students raise oysters to help restore Mississippi reefs, cages that might hold fist-sized clumps of oysters after a good summer and fall held only a few small babies in mid-November. “But as far as a terrible loss, no, it wasn’t really a bad year.”Īt a high school in Bay St. “We lost a little bit more than we usually do,” said Sam Yates of High Tide Oyster Co. And they fill buckets with dead oysters each time they harvest live ones big enough to sell.Īnother oyster farmer in the same area reported less serious damage. “What we’re seeing is a preponderance of runts,” she said. because they’re either too small or they’re dead,” Arguelles said. “It has reduced the crop by at least 30%. farm off Deer Island - and those that survive were stunted.
Mississippi oyster farmer Anita Arguelles said that at one point, fresh water was killing half of the small seed oysters that she and her husband buy to grow in raised cages at their French Hermit Oyster Co. Fresh water also has hurt baby oysters in southeast Louisiana but doesn’t appear to have been a big problem in Alabama.
(AP) - Deluges along Mississippi’s coast have damaged the state’s current generation of oysters two years after fresh water from a Louisiana flood control structure all but wiped out live adults on reefs. The school is among more than 50 locations in Mississippi and hundreds nationwide - most of them private docks - where volunteers are raising oysters to help build reefs off of their states' coasts. Instead, many of the shells that held up to 10 of the tiny, translucent babies called spat when they were put into the water off the school's dock are now empty and survivors were about the size of finger- or thumbnails. 15, 2021, at Stanislaus High School in Bay St. In a good year, a cage in an oyster garden would hold many clumps of oysters like these two, shown on Monday, Nov.
0 kommentar(er)
