10K seed outplant at Baywater Shellfish

This post details outplanting 10K Seed at Baywater shellfish.

Outplanting at Baywater

Tonight we outplanted oysters at Baywater Shellfish in Thorndyke Bay in the Hood Canal. We met at about 9:00pm, loaded the oysters into floating bags, and attached them to lines on the flats at low tide around 10:45pm.

Each bag has a purple cattle tag corresponding to the table below.

purple.tag	source.bag	treatment	number.oysters
1	75	FW 35C	150
2	75	FW 35C	150
3	75	FW 35C	150
4	76	FW 35C	150
5	76	FW 35C	150
6	76	FW 35C	150
7	47	35C	150
8	47	35C	150
9	47	35C	150
10	30	35C	150
11	30	35C	150
12	30	35C	150
13	49	Immune	150
14	49	Immune	150
15	49	Immune	150
16	50	Immune	150
17	50	Immune	150
18	50	Immune	150
19	66	FW	150
20	66	FW	150
21	66	FW	150
22	56	FW	150
23	56	FW	150
24	56	FW	150
25	37	Control	150
26	37	Control	150
27	37	Control	150
28	36	Control	150
29	36	Control	150
30	36	Control	150

We dumped the oysters out of mesh seed bags that we prepared yesterday and secured the bags. Three random bags have the temperature loggers that were launched yesterday as well.

The bags were attached to three lines with 10 bags per line, all randomly distributed. We will keep in touch with Baywater to help with maintenance and will assess them in the spring!

Written on October 31, 2024