{"id":584,"date":"2011-07-25T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/?p=584"},"modified":"2011-07-25T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T16:55:53","slug":"saving-oysters-in-oregon-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2011\/07\/25\/saving-oysters-in-oregon-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Oysters in Oregon – week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call me Captain!<\/em><\/h2>\n

I now officially hold an Oregon boater’s license.\u00a0 After two whole days of an online crash course, I should now know about the official road rules of the sea.. and the appropiate types of toilets for different vessels.\u00a0 The course was very comprehensive, and after taking it,\u00a0I know a lot about boating legalities and issues I had never even thought of before, but there was just so much information!\u00a0 I hope I can keep straight who has the right of way on the ocean and what different honks mean.<\/p>\n

The course, however, didn’t teach me HOW to drive a boat.\u00a0 After I had my printed boating certificate, I excitedly got into our 16-foot vessel, and immediately realized.. “I don’t know how to START this thing..”.\u00a0 I had two great teachers though – Ali and Adam.\u00a0 Ali dealt with the fundamentals, like pump the gas to start the motor, and Adam dealt with the get-to-know-your-boat’s-limits, like quickly push the throttle to the max to see how fast it can go from neutral!\u00a0 I’m starting to get the hang of it, but other boats should probably still watch out when I get on the water!<\/p>\n

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Oly-ROCS go into Mass Production<\/em><\/h2>\n

We are revving up for our first deployment of 10-15 Oly-ROCS into the bay!<\/p>\n

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It will happen next week,\u00a0so I have been busy building.\u00a0 Our prototypes seem pretty hardy so hopefully they’ll survive their new homes in the water.\u00a0 If not, we shall see what’s wrong with this first deployment.\u00a0 We’re also going to be testing different shell orientations in the cement – how they fare out against the elements, how well they attract native oyster larvae to settle, and how settled juveniles survive on them.<\/p>\n

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We have two different shell orientations we’re checking out: <\/a><\/p>\n

1) Shells sticking up, and
\n2) Shells flat against the concrete.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Both orientations can be found in nature, the former usually found on the sides of smaller rocks or on rounded sides, and the latter usually seen on the flat sides of larger rocks (from my observation).<\/p>\n

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Also..<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>These are Pacific oyster shells (non-native, from Japan), that have native Olympia oyster juveniles on them.\u00a0 Two years ago, these ‘shell bags’ were strategically put out in the bay to attract Olympia oyster larvae, but the oysters can’t\u00a0stay in these orange bags forever.\u00a0 Some\u00a0restoration efforts have\u00a0simply scattered those shells with the\u00a0attached juveniles into bays, but they can be easily washed away with the tides or smothered with\u00a0sand and mud.<\/p>\n

Our idea:\u00a0 A few Oly-ROCS will also be made with these shells, and we shall see if this is an option for them!<\/p>\n

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