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Oyster farming is an aquaculture (or mariculture) practice in which oysters are bred and raised mainly for their pearls, shells and inner organ tissue, which is eaten. Oyster farming was practiced by the ancient Romans as early as the 1st century BC on the Italian peninsula [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and later in Britain for export to Rome.
Natural oyster beds will never be able to support the numbers needed to meet market demands, but the oyster industry has continued to endure. Learning from past mistakes has led present day farming companies to employ more conservation practices to ensure water quality and healthy specimens. [citation needed]
Oatley Bay was an oyster farming location [60] and there were other oyster farming locations on the left (north) bank, east of Oatley, such as Connells Point and Kyle Bay, but due to opposition to oyster leases from the local and state governments, production ceased at these locations relatively early in the 20th century. [94] [151] [152] [153]
Particular kinds of aquaculture include fish farming, shrimp farming, oyster farming, mariculture, pisciculture, algaculture (such as seaweed farming), and the cultivation of ornamental fish. Particular methods include aquaponics and integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, both of which integrate fish farming and aquatic plant farming.
A Tybee Island Company is harvesting Georgia's first oysters raised on a floating farm, in the Bull River. Tybee company makes history with harvest from Georgia's first floating oyster farm Skip ...
"Oyster stalls and lunch room at Fulton Market", 1867. Oysters in New York City have a long history as part of both the environmental and cultural environment. [1] [2] They were abundant in the marine life of New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, functioning as water filtration and as a food source beginning with Native communities in Lenapehoking. [3]
New research should clear the way for Georgia environmental officials to eliminate a costly regulatory barrier that owners of the first state’s first floating oyster farm insist will be a drag ...
Georgia's first leases for oyster farming, also called mariculture, are shaping up off the coast to bolster the local-grown oyster industry.