Oyster Blog

The chiton is continuing his cleaning ways: And both the gunnel and the sculpin have found hiding places where they can get a little R&R without worrying about a spider crab attack: The gunnel prefers a floating piece of drift...

Shrimp are much faster in reverse, but we didn't get it on camera. We haven't been able to find live crab for the past couple of weeks, so we saved a few of the spot prawns in our crab aquarium,...

We just about got skunked last weekend during the first recreational shrimp opening of the year.  Normally we shrimp at about 150 to 200 feet, and normally we do really well. There were 10 of us shrimping in the same...

This little guy came in with the spot prawns last week. He lost his right paw somewhere along the way. After a little sleuthing we determined that he's a squat lobster: According to Emerald Diving, squat lobsters are actually just...

Killdeer are darling little birds and their high-pitched calls echo across the oyster farm on summer evenings. A couple of days ago Dave noticed that a mother killdeer had built an oyster shell nest in a gravel pile near the...

Meet our newest aquarium addition! Anemones eat small fish and shrimp. Be glad you're not a little fish stuck in an aquarium with a hungry anemone: each tentacle contains a harpoon-like structure that injects a toxin into the anemone's prey....

Last week was busy so we didn't have time to post. This week is slow and rainy so we're posting about last week. On Monday the 22nd we headed into Seattle to give out samples of smoked and pickled oysters...

We sell two styles of oyster knife in the store: a Dexter Russel with a long blade and a generic short handled knife with a short blade. The size of the blade you need depends on the size of the...

(unholy reflection). Notice the pink stars on the crab tank? Annie turned us on to chalk paint, so we turned our crab tank into a chalk board. Of course, it's not the best place for a chalk masterpiece because when...

A couple of months ago Adam pulled some seed out of a grow-bag and brought it into the store to shuck. The oysters had led sheltered lives... they hadn't yet been tumbled or tossed around on the beach, and so...

There used to be only a few of these little critters on the beach, now there are thousands. They're very, very sociable, and like to congregate on muddy sections of beach. We didn't know what to call them, but someone...