Oyster stuff
 

From Grand Isle, La.

LSU Oyster Hatchery

Oyster hatchery picture sign

Water tanks

Don't ask me how all this works.

Algae to feed the baby oysters.

Lotsa money invested in this set up.
Filter system to clean the seawater before using on the small oysters.

Baby Oysters

thats neat, open to the public?

This is a commercial nursery. They get the baby oysters from the LSU hatchery (at the LDWF Marine Lab) and grow them here at the nursery to a size where they won't fall out of mesh sacks. The baby oysters are then either transferred to mesh sacks in grow-out cages or are "planted" on oyster bottoms for grow-out.

Not on a regular basis. Go with a group.

salty cajun group field trip= yeti full of beer and off to the hatchery

No tresspassing

Oyster harvesting test area in the bay

Forgot the pictures.

Thats pretty cool.

Looks like the worlds largest Meth Lab.

Oyster grounds out East are all private seed grounds that are leased. They have to reseed over there. Wish they would over here!!! But big lake is public, so no forced reseeding.

So...The million dollar question...How's it all work?! HAHA

That is pretty nifty the way they are able to set all that stuff up!

Guys. That's the oyster hatchery/farm I work at. ANYTIME you want to see it this summer we will tell you how every last bit of it works. I'm typically there tues, wed, and thurs every week. Wish I woulda known folks from here were coming. If you can't make it tues - thurs shoot me a pm and I'll see what I can do about a tour on any other day. We usually have a tour about every other day this summer.