Glossary
GLOSSARYCar Cover
A type of netting used to protect growing clams from a variety of tideland predators.
Shellfish Seed
Shellfish "seed" get their start as microscopic free swimming larva at the Taylor's state-of-the-art hatcheries in Quilcene and Kona, Hawaii. When an oyster larva has "set" on a dust-size grain of ground oyster shell it achieves "spat" status. When a spat reaches the size where it can fend off most predators and survive on it's own in the wild, it has become "seed". The process is the same for Manilla clams and geoduck except they do not attach themselves. Manilla clam, Mediterranean mussel and geoduck seed is approximately 1/4 inch and oyster seed 1/2 inch or larger. |
