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Starting this summer, I’m going to start raising Eastern oysters off of the dock at the family bay house. Over Memorial Day week end, we purchased a small oyster float and  put in an order for spat (juvenile oysters). Alt hough the spat will not be ready until mid- June, I was able to visit and tour the hatchery where the o yster seed I will grow is  produced. The company, Oyster Seed Holdings, LLC, located on Gwynn’s Island on Virginia’s Middle Peninsula, produces 50% of the oyster seed in Virginia. Oyster Seed Holdings  produces and sells pre-set larvae, and (the more popular) post-set oyster seed. The seed or larvae are then sold to retailers, who provide spat to gardeners, like myself, who grow the oysters at home. The grounds of Oyster Seed Holdings, LLC on Gwynn’s Island, Virginia.  Oyster Seed Holdings spawns oysters from February to October. Oysters in the wild generally spawn from late spring to early fall, dep endent on the weather; warm water is needed for spawning. At the hatcher y, mature oysters are kept in shallow, climate- controlled tanks, where, essentially, the oysters are tricked into spawning in months where they would not spawn in the wild. The oysters release eggs and sperm into their tanks, and embryos are collected.

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