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Title: Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest
Post by: Linda on September 24, 2012, 11:21:01 AM
Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest

http://www.ocala.com/article/20120920/ARTICLES/120929967/0/FRONTPAGE?p=all&tc=pgall

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Too much salt in the water and too much heat have stressed the creatures. And a parasite named perkinsus — commonly called dermo — has festered in the mollusks this year, said Leslie Sturmer, a shellfish aquaculture agent in Cedar Key for the Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences at the University of Florida.

"This is a natural occurrence. It's just that under high temperatures and higher salinity, it becomes more prevalent. You combine the environmental factors with that, and we've had significant oyster losses," Sturmer said. "There are a lot of people who like their Cedar Key oysters because they tend to be high in salinity. We've got a lot of dedicated fans in Gainesville who are going to be most disappointed."

So when the DUmmies start with it's all BP's fault we have no oysters or the price of oysters have sky rocketed, you will know the truth...This is a natural occurrence...at this point they are @ $60.00 a bushel....
Title: Re: Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest
Post by: thundley4 on September 24, 2012, 11:25:16 AM
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Too much salt in the water and too much heat have stressed the creatures.

There are a lot of people who like their Cedar Key oysters because they tend to be high in salinity.

Confused?  I am.  It sounds like the oysters normally thrive in higher salinity.
Title: Re: Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest
Post by: JohnnyReb on September 24, 2012, 11:35:49 AM
Oysters are supposedly good for your sex life therefore DUmmies consume oodles and oodles of oysters...and are still only getting screwed by Obama & democrats.
Title: Re: Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest
Post by: Linda on September 24, 2012, 11:38:06 AM
The following came from the comment section, maybe it will help explain....

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Tallahassee regulates the oyster industry. They are constantly testing the waters and testing meat samples from the oysters. As of now they are safe to eat. We don't know what the future holds for us, but I am praying that the gulf stream current, which is eighty miles off shore from us will keep it off of our oyster beds. Anyway, we had plenty of oysters to harvest last year, but towards the end of the year we started seeing leaches in our oysters. This was because we were in a drought and the salinity was too high. Then we had an influx of rain over the summer, which gave the oysters too much fresh water. I have seen this sort of thing happen over and over for years. If we could get permission to move oysters out of closed areas to open areas this will help the oystermen. The oysters are filter feeders, they would have to filter non-polluted water for three weeks and then the meat would have to be tested before we could harvest them. Like I said before, Tallahassee would regulate all of this and the oysters will be safe to eat.
Title: Re: Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest
Post by: Linda on September 24, 2012, 11:39:07 AM
Looks to me like it is a delicate balancing act between salt water and fresh water....
Title: Re: Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest
Post by: Mike220 on September 24, 2012, 11:39:50 AM
Oysters are supposedly good for your sex life therefore DUmmies consume oodles and oodles of oysters...and are still only getting screwed by Obama & democrats.

Bet he doesn't even cuddle them afterward...
Title: Re: Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest
Post by: JohnnyReb on September 24, 2012, 11:43:47 AM
Bet he doesn't even cuddle them afterward...

Well, they are afterall slick and slimy democrats.
Title: Re: Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest
Post by: Linda on September 24, 2012, 11:49:19 AM
Well, they are afterall slick and slimy democrats.

You know, with comments like that, you could turn a person off of oysters.
Title: Re: Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest
Post by: Crazy Horse on September 24, 2012, 03:19:56 PM
Oyster collapse hitting Cedar Key hardest

http://www.ocala.com/article/20120920/ARTICLES/120929967/0/FRONTPAGE?p=all&tc=pgall

So when the DUmmies start with it's all BP's fault we have no oysters or the price of oysters have sky rocketed, you will know the truth...This is a natural occurrence...at this point they are @ $60.00 a bushel....

Actually it was all BP's fault to drive up the cost of oysters............when the spill happened.  Many, many oysters come from the Gulf.  I all depends on the year and how the season is going.  This year we are having a problem with rain, I'm happy we're getting the rain and not in a drought, however it's keeping the shellfish areas closed. 

Here in eastern "BY GOD" NC, we killed all of our oysters back in the 1890's with oyster dredges.  More people and the runoff that comes with it then decimated the deep water oysters beads of our inland sea in the Pamlico Sound.

Yes, we love our salty coon oysters around these parts, especially from Stump Sound or My Lord Honey Seafood.