Posts Tagged aquaculture

Island Creek Goes Clamming

Robert teaches us how to spot, size and cook clams in time for Labor Day. Watch it go down.    The benefit of living/working/playing on the water is the bounty of the bay. Sure, we grow oysters, but we also spend our free time swimming, fishing

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Oysters Are For Lovers

Before the Roman Empire…people were using oysters to set the mood.   Casanova was even rumored to eat oysters on the regular to woo the many, many women he bedded. And amongst all the eye-roll-inducing oyster puns that regretfully exist, ones about oysters “making you a better

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High Season in the Oyster Hatchery!

Generally, the winter is a quieter time for oyster farmers. The bay is emptied of its moorings, boats and oyster plexes. The shoreline is tucked in with a blanket of frost. It’s a time for tinkering, repairing, power washing, and reorganizing. Beneath this sleepy facade, however, brews a squall of

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All About: Marshallberg Caviar

Let’s get real – Caviar is awesome but also intimidating. Like choosing a bottle of wine from an extensive list, the choices are confusing and the often-steep price tag can mean that the stakes are HIGH. Add to that a history of smuggling, overfishing, and environmental degradation

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All About the Island Creek Trio

Twenty five years ago, Skip Bennett brought oysters to Duxbury. This was extraordinary because until this point there were no oysters, wild or otherwise, in Duxbury Bay. Fast-forward to present day, we’re still farming and Duxbury has become the largest oyster producing town in Massachusetts. This boom in

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