Grading

Now with state of the art grading machines, life is getting easier for the oyster farmer.  The oysters are graded 3 - 4 times in their farm life.  They are brought into the industrial shed overnight for machine sorting, returning them out to the oyster farm next morning.  As they grow bigger we place less in each bag.  A spat bag could have as many as 250 oysters in it .  By the time we are fattening them for market they have as little as 60 oysters per bag.