By moving half of them to a new home, all of the oysters will have more room to grow and easier access to the water they are constantly filtering. The new Taylor float is in the rear; the original bag float in front:
We may have waited a bit too long to split them - some of the oysters were much bigger than other ones in the bunch. As such, we had to sort them by size. The bigger ones were moved to the Taylor Float, but the smaller ones went back into the bag float. The "holes" in the Taylor Float are much bigger so the smaller oysters actually fell right through them.
Here's was our starting point last summer and where we are now:
The floats were put back in the water and secured to the pier - and the oysters are busy growing for eventual placement on a protected reef in the Bay.
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