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Mookie Blues from Damariscotta, ME YGroup_SconticutAvailable for a limited time only. Farmer: Bill Mook Location: Damariscotta River, ME Size: 2. 5" 3 How theyre grown: Mooks oysters begin in their very own hatchery where the seed is grown in upwellers of various sizes. Once large enough, theyre moved to OysterGro cages, which are equipped with floats to hold the cages just below the waters surface. The floating cages are regularly flipped to encourage shell growth and shape and to control fouling
Skip has always grown the Island Creek seed (baby oysters) in off-bottom gear before bottom planting them at about 6 months old
Galicia is studded with bays and inlets which are fed “rías” (aka estuaries)
000 lbs per man per day) were not to be messed with--Skip
Available for a limited time this holiday season
They both wanted their sons to be committed to protecting Maine’s valuable marine resources that they grew up loving
They're named Aunt Dotty Oysters after Skip's great aunt who lived in the cottage with her five children for most of the year
Proprietor: Matteo Orlando
2 of which are situated on soft sand
Farmer Kimberly Ward [farm owner] and Michael Ward [farm manager]
How they taste: These oysters are incredibly vegetal
where they'll spend the next 6-9 years of their lives before harvest
Dan Niven was looking for ways to improve local shellfish populations