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Far Left: Launching from a pier on Locklies Creek in
Middlesex County, members of Rappahannock
Oyster Company take oysters out to grow on the
bottom of the river. The company harvests its
oysters from leased plots on the bottom of the
Rappahannock River that amount to several
hundred acres. Just one acre can produce over
750,000 oysters in the 18-24 months it takes for the
oysters to grow to market size. While in the water, a
single oyster can filter between 24 and 96 liters of
water per day, improving the health of the body of
water they are in.
Left: At harvesting, the mature oysters are removed
from their cages to larger bins. Once full, these bins
are moved via forklift to a sorting machine that
cleans and sorts the oysters by size, including
removing any oysters from the haul that are
damaged or are not big enough. Any broken oyster
shells are recycled back into the water as reefs,
which grow more oysters. Once sorted and bagged,
the oysters are sold to Rappahannock Oyster
Company's customers, part of the 40 million oysters
sold each year that makes Virginia the oyster capital
of the East Coast.
NICK VANDELOECHT
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