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Oyster farming in South Carolina
South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium
South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium
Abstract
When disease concerns shut down the out-of-state supply of seed oysters for
South Carolina’s newly-created oyster farming industry in 2014, the S.C. Sea
Grant Consortium provided technical assistance for the establishment of a
hatchery at Lady’s Island Oyster near Beaufort. This hatchery now supplies much of the oyster production seeds in the state,
which reduces supply chain vulnerabilities and lowers the risk of importing
diseases. The amount of of farmed oysters in
the state grew from 139,178 in 2014
to over 1.2 million in 2019, according
to the S.C. Department of Natural
Resources.
In 2020, production dropped slightly
due to restaurants closing during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Issue Date
2022-03-03
Keywords
Oyster culture--South Carolina
Type
Text
Rights
Copyright status determined to be in the public domain on April 27, 2020 by United States Supreme Court ruling (Georgia et al., Petitioners v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. : 590 U.S.__(2020))
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