Stop Spraying and Put Some Effort Into Your Jobs
Taylor Shellfish and other growers are now claiming economic crisis in Willapa Bay because they will not be able to spray the neurotoxin imidacloprid onto their tideflats to kill burrowing shrimp. They claim not being able to do so leaves oysters to sink into quicksand and smother. Apparently they are unaware of what other growers are doing to grow oysters off of the sediments - including Taylor Shellfish.
Business is never easy. As they say, if it were, everyone would be doing it. If you can't grow oysters in Willapa Bay without spraying pesticides and herbicides to kill off everything, maybe you shouldn't be in the oyster business. Because spraying in Willapa Bay will kill off the oyster business.
Hamma Hamma in Hood Canal
(from Seattle Times)
Rack Culture from California
Korea
Long Line - Taylor Shellfish (yes, Taylor Shellfish)
Western Oyster Floating Rafts - Burley Lagoon
Long Line - Brady's Oysters, Grays Harbor
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