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Finally, oysters can attenuate and agglomerate onto each other and form these amazing natural reef structures.
We reinterpreted this life cycle on the scale of our sight and took the Gowanus as a giant oyster nursery where oysters would be grown up in the Gowanus, then paraded down in their spat stage and seeded out on the Bayridge Reef.
The concept was to really knit this rope together and develop this new soft infrastructure for the oysters to grow on.
You can see the eight chambers on the side host little baby oysters and essentially force-feed them.
So rather than having 10 oysters, you have 10,000 oysters.
And the second one is: when can we eat the oysters?
We'd be growing oysters and things that would be producing high value products and food, and this would be a market driver as we build the system to larger and larger scales so that it becomes, ultimately, competitive with the idea of doing it for fuels.
We're like oysters.
Now these ions are basically the building blocks for many marine species to make their shells, for example crabs or mussels, oysters.
There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay.
But since we ate all the oysters and we ate all the fish that would eat the plankton, there's nothing to eat the plankton and there's more and more of it, so it dies of old age, which is unheard of for plankton.
All three are good friends and every Friday night they go to a local bar where they get oysters so they can look for a pearl (they never eat them).
Each Friday they go out for oysters with Genius (Silvers), the club comedian.
They all hate oysters, but they're looking for a pearl.
Rusty, Danny and Genius (Phil Silvers) have a ritual on Friday nights: they order oysters in a bar, trying to find a pearl.
However, Harry (Henry) Morgan, and Mike Farrell, both singularly and compositely together is like eating caviar and fresh oysters with Wonder Bread.
His "I wanna lick the sweat off your body" line delivered over oysters in his "Go Ahead, make my day" inflection set her heart and panties aflame.
One type of aquaculture is devoted to the farming of bivalves such as oysters and mussels, or to freshwater fish such as carp and tilapia.
As they attacked the hors-d'oeuvre she said, with a smile:"You must excuse me; I wanted to give you oysters.
On Monday, you know, there was an arrival of Ostend oysters at Marchiennes, and I meant to send the cook with the carriage.
This bay, repeatedly dredged, furnished a huge supply of excellent oysters.
And if Mr. Ned Land did not repent of his gluttony at our oyster fest, it's because oysters are the only dish that never causes indigestion.
We also gathered in a few sea cucumbers, some pearl oysters, and a dozen small turtles that we saved for the ship's pantry.
I believe the average time underwater that these fishermen can tolerate is thirty seconds, during which they hastily stuff their little nets with all the pearl oysters they can tear loose.
But tell me, captain, how many oysters can a boat fish up in a workday?""About 40,000 to 50,000.
It's even said that in 1814, when the English government went fishing on its own behalf, its divers worked just twenty days and brought up 76,000,000 oysters."
And could master tell us the profits brought in by harvesting these banks of pearl oysters?""According to Sirr's book," I replied, "these Ceylon fisheries are farmed annually for a total profit of 3,000,000 man-eaters."
Among other specimens in these two branches, I noted some windowpane oysters with thin valves of unequal size, a type of ostracod unique to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, then orange-hued lucina with circular shells, awl-shaped auger shells, some of those Persian murex snails that supply the Nautilus with such wonderful dye, spiky periwinkles fifteen centimeters long that rose under the waves like hands ready to grab you, turban snails with shells made of horn and bristling all over with spines, lamp shells, edible duck clams that feed the Hindu marketplace, subtly luminous jellyfish of the species Pelagia panopyra, and finally some wonderful Oculina flabelliforma, magnificent sea fans that fashion one of the most luxuriant tree forms in this ocean.
Near seven o'clock we finally surveyed the bank of shellfish, where pearl oysters reproduce by the millions.
In this respect oysters are inferior even to mussels, to whom nature has not denied all talent for locomotion.
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