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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.
European settlers who began to colonize the Pacific Northwest developed an acquired taste for shellfish, especially oysters, a delicacy that were considered to be a symbol of wealth. [1] In the early history of the Pacific Northwest, people satisfied their hunger for shellfish by harvesting naturally occurring oyster beds.
Oysters were an important food source in all coastal areas where they could be found, and oyster fisheries were an important industry where they were plentiful. Overfishing and pressure from diseases and pollution have sharply reduced supplies, but they remain a popular treat celebrated in oyster festivals in many cities and towns.
Before Columbus and the rise of industrial oyster operations, oysters abounded in the bay. Oysters first arrived in the Chesapeake 5,000 years ago, [citation needed] and shortly after, local Indians began eating them. Archaeologists found evidence the local Native Americans returned to the same place to collect oysters for 3,000 years.
Started in 1994 by Murray Fisher and Pete Malinowski, [13] the Billion Oyster Project set to return oysters back to New York Harbor. The program was designed to, at first, use artificial reefs to let young oysters - or spat - attach to and grow. In 2015, the Project started the Shell Collection Program, collecting used shells from oyster, clams ...
For most people, oysters feel like a food that needs to be eaten while out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, or at a celebratory happy hour, or at a beachside seafood spot while on vacation.
Sergius was well known to his contemporaries for the breeding and commercialization of oysters, of which he was a noted innovator. [1] Orata wanted to take advantage of the wealthy Romans' liking for shellfish as food, so he developed many new techniques for breeding oysters.
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