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Bowen's Island Restaurant is a restaurant serving lowcountry cuisine in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2006 it was named one of America's Classics by the James Beard Foundation. [1] The restaurant was opened in 1946 by Mae Bowen. [2] As of 2016 it was run by her grandson, Robert Barber. [1]
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[9] [16] In 2002, the company also helped to restore an oyster reef in the river. [17] The company also operates a seafood cannery and packing facility and is a research partner with the State of Virginia. [1] [18] [19] The packing and shucking facility also processes oysters from the Long Island Sound, Kent Narrows, and Rock Hall. [9] [15]
Research shows that filter feeders such as oysters, clams and mussels have the potential to accumulate high concentrations of heavy metals in their soft tissues, posing a risk to humans ...
The windowpane oyster (Placuna placenta) is a bivalve marine mollusk in the family of Placunidae. [1] It is edible, but valued more for its shell (and its rather small pearls). The oyster's shells have been used for thousands of years as a glass substitute because of their durability and translucence.
The term oyster reef refers to dense aggregations of oysters that form large colonial communities. Because oyster larvae need to settle on hard substrates, new oyster reefs may form on stone or other hard marine debris. Eventually the oyster reef will propagate by spat settling on the shells of older or nonliving oysters. The dense aggregations ...
Saccostrea glomerata is an oyster species belonging to the family Ostreidae. [5] It is endemic to Australia and New Zealand. [6] [7] In Australia, it is known as the Sydney rock oyster and is commercially farmed. In New Zealand, where the species is no longer farmed, it is known as the New Zealand rock oyster or Auckland oyster.
When Spanish explorers arrived on the west coast of Canada, they named many of the features of what is now the Strait of Georgia.Bowen Island was called Isla de Apodaca (after the Mexican town of Apodaca, in northeast Nuevo León state, which was itself named after a benevolent bishop, Salvador de Apodaca y Loreto) by the Spanish Captain José María Narváez in July, 1791. [10]