‘Long-line’ oyster farming raises the oysters off the bottom, greatly increasing productivity. The mother shells are threaded onto lines, which are strung on PVC pipes stuck into the bottom.
Seals on a sandbar in Willapa Bay watch travelers headed to the oyster beds.
Coast Seafood CFO Kay Cogan ’79 inspects an oyster in the Willapa Bay oyster beds.
A Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas, literally ‘big oyster’)
Coast Seafood CFO Kay Cogan ’79 in the Willapa Bay oyster beds.
