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'''May 7, 1903 [SBMP]:''' “It will be remembered that a San Francisco firm went to considerable expense several years ago in planting oyster beds along the beach below Summerland as an experiment. There never has been any dredging done to ascertain whether the bivalves were thriving, but from the fact that an occasional oyster, much larger than those planted, is found on the shore indicates that they are at least growing, if not multiplying. The following is from the Summerland Advance: ‘Some boys picked up on the beach a few days ago a brickbat encrusted with small oysters, which had evidently been cast up by the recent southeaster. This is a very hopeful indication for the oyster beds, which were laid out in front of Summerland a couple of years ago, as it shows the seed oysters planted at that time are not only alive, but are propagating. The seed oysters when planted were two and three years old at the time they were planted. Roughly speaking, an oyster grows an inch in diameter a year up to three years, when the rate of growth is much slower. An oyster five to seven years old is of marketable size. As it would be hardly profitable to fish the original planting, we can hardly expect the beds to yield inside of three more years. | '''May 7, 1903 [SBMP]:''' “It will be remembered that a San Francisco firm went to considerable expense several years ago in planting oyster beds along the beach below Summerland as an experiment. There never has been any dredging done to ascertain whether the bivalves were thriving, but from the fact that an occasional oyster, much larger than those planted, is found on the shore indicates that they are at least growing, if not multiplying. The following is from the Summerland Advance: ‘Some boys picked up on the beach a few days ago a brickbat encrusted with small oysters, which had evidently been cast up by the recent southeaster. This is a very hopeful indication for the oyster beds, which were laid out in front of Summerland a couple of years ago, as it shows the seed oysters planted at that time are not only alive, but are propagating. The seed oysters when planted were two and three years old at the time they were planted. Roughly speaking, an oyster grows an inch in diameter a year up to three years, when the rate of growth is much slower. An oyster five to seven years old is of marketable size. As it would be hardly profitable to fish the original planting, we can hardly expect the beds to yield inside of three more years.’ ” | ||
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Oysters
In the News~
October 2, 1879 [SBMP]: “A bed of oysters has been discovered at the west end of Santa Cruz Island. The bivalves are said to be of fine flavor and unusually large, many of them being larger than a man's hand. Winemiller is having some oyster tongs made, and will shortly go after a load of these oysters, and the people will have an opportunity to test them for themselves.”
October 8, 1879 [REG]: “A bed of oysters has been discovered at the west end of Santa Cruz Island. They are said to be of fine flavor and unusually large.”
May 7, 1903 [SBMP]: “It will be remembered that a San Francisco firm went to considerable expense several years ago in planting oyster beds along the beach below Summerland as an experiment. There never has been any dredging done to ascertain whether the bivalves were thriving, but from the fact that an occasional oyster, much larger than those planted, is found on the shore indicates that they are at least growing, if not multiplying. The following is from the Summerland Advance: ‘Some boys picked up on the beach a few days ago a brickbat encrusted with small oysters, which had evidently been cast up by the recent southeaster. This is a very hopeful indication for the oyster beds, which were laid out in front of Summerland a couple of years ago, as it shows the seed oysters planted at that time are not only alive, but are propagating. The seed oysters when planted were two and three years old at the time they were planted. Roughly speaking, an oyster grows an inch in diameter a year up to three years, when the rate of growth is much slower. An oyster five to seven years old is of marketable size. As it would be hardly profitable to fish the original planting, we can hardly expect the beds to yield inside of three more years.’ ”
April 23, 1959 [The Catalina Islander]: “Oyster farm comes to Cat Harbor. Millions of Oyster "seed" from Japan and Chesapeake Bay will be planted in Catalina Harbor as the result of an agreement this week between Santa Catalina Island Company and Curtis & Curtis of Portuguese Bend who will operate the oyster "farm." Mr. Curtis, who is sales manager of the Starkist Tuna packing company, has made an extensive study of the propagation of oysters in southern California and has stated that the waters of Catalina Harbor should be highly suitable for this purpose. Oyster growing activities will be on the floor of the harbor and will not interfere with other uses of the harbor, it was pointed out by Malcolm Renton of the Catalina Company.”
May 21, 1959 [The Catalina Islander]: “Oysters planted too deep, too soon. Millions of oyster seed from Japan and Chesapeake Bay, headed for the Curtis and Curtis oyster farm at Catalina Island, were planted too deep and too soon on Tuesday afternoon. The commercial fishing boat that was bearing the precious cargo began taking on water in mid-channel and was soon on the bottom. According to the best reports available the crew was taken off safely without injury. These particular oysters will doubtless never be harvested. Plans are going ahead, however, to seed the oyster beds in Catalina Harbor and this unique and very interesting new industry for Catalina Island will not be abandoned due to this misfortune.”
