SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R. I. — Work is underway to build a new shellfish hatchery across from the Matunuck Oyster Bar. The 4,118-square-foot, $2.4 million facility is a collaboration between Perry ...

Delaware Sea Grant’s pilot oyster hatchery recently sent 200 bags of shell with roughly 105,000 oyster spat — or baby oysters — to a commercial aquaculture operation in the Delaware Bay using larvae ...

Oyster Bay's current hatchery, a smaller operation on the east end of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park, produced 12 million shellfish seeds that were put into the bay in 2023, ...

The hatchery, years ahead of schedule, may help Delaware oyster farmers grow more quickly Only the trained eye would know that those 200 bags of shells contained anything special.

Jake Torok, hatchery manager for Merrymeeting Shellfish, examines a tank filled with oyster seed inside the company’s oyster hatchery at Mitchell Field in Harpswell on May 3.

The Town of Oyster Bay plans to soon build a shellfish hatchery capable of producing 100 million oysters and clams annually, but before that leap, town workers will need to better learn the ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – For the last five years, Matunuck Oyster Bar owner Perry Raso has been asking to expand his aquaculture operations in Potter Pond and facing relentless opposition from ...

Within a year's time, the hatchery should already be producing oyster seed, Raso said. The facility is being built on a small spit of land next to the Matunuck Marina , practically across the ...

The hatchery was meant to seed, literally, the start of Georgia’s oyster farming industry. In 2018, the McIntoshes used larvae from the hatchery in cages placed on the river bottom near Harris Neck.

One Oregon hatchery reported seeing oyster larvae dissolve in their tanks. Last year, VIMS began a $1.1 million research project to study how ...

An oyster hatchery in Bideford, P.E.I., plans to triple its seed production next year so it can respond if demand increases because of the detection of MSX in the province's waterways.

At Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery on the Oregon coast, baby oysters are hatched, raised, then sold to oyster farms throughout the Pacific Northwest. “Our pumps pump in about 200 gallons a ...