Farming Hawaii's Oyster Foodsource





Oyster Farming, is one of the most sustainable-proteins as a key-stone species that helps shrimp and crab populations. Oysters sold in 2019 for a entrepreneur start-up would be 36,000 Oysters (36k. 2019) and after four-years about 1,600,000 Oysters (1.6 million. 2023). 

Oysters at Home: 

Start-Up: A Start-up is with 20 cages that can house-oysters about 100,000 oysters that was a 5,000$ (2019) investment. 

Oyster Tumbler Machine: Cost of a Oyster Tumbler is $18,000 (2019). USDA has starter loans.

Oyster Washing Machine: Cost of a Oyster Washing Machine is $32,000 (2019) 

Market: The Experience in a place that doesn't know much about the market of oysters and a person who doesn't know much about what to sell them for can be stressful as they compete with wild-oyster prices. A first sale might be about 400 oysters as a company might be giving it a try to a Distributor. Orders are placed for Harvest to pre-sale Oysters before Harvest, so that they are already sold to have nothing sitting in the fridge and to have the "Freshest Oysters". A typical harvest schedule would be on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, with the average Oyster-Cage being 1200 oysters per Oyster-Cage at 0.50c per cage thats 400$ with oysters that are not to market standards. Sometimes people are lucky and all the oysters are okay and its 600$, so the goals are 10 cages a day thats $4000. 

Water: Division of Aquatic Resources (Hawaii) Application Fee. Yearly, State Water Lease: renting Water Bottom-Acres, renting Water Top-Acres, for oyster farms to move forward they must be subsidized for their economic and environmental impacts. A common costly mistake that happens with Oysters is picking the wrong lease where all the labor was put it, but the time of the year wasn't good for the oysters, a bio-fouling experience comes and all of them are wiped out. Spat Biofouling, Wild-Oyster Larvae (Spat) that are non-hatchery can attach to a whole-crop of oysters that makes market oysters unsellable. Spotting leases is by looking if it has heavy mud, heavy sand, is there spat on oysters, how is the environment good and know multiple lease-locations.

Oyster-Laboratory Hatching: In Hawaii they would need a place that has a Oyster Laboratory Hatchery like the one that is in Virginia and would the goal would be to be in more restaurants at a lower-price for marketing purposes to make the lower-costs for price of oysters, product freshness, and make it easy to work with the people.

Oyster-Nursery Raising: 

Floating Oyster Cages (Water-Top): 

Bottom Oyster Cages (Water-Bottom): A safe-secure area allows them to grow and as they grow larger they are moved up to the floating cages when they are in their shaping-phase and then moved back to the bottom cages to grow into market-size called "Final Grow out" until its time to harvest. This is for security reasons, scaling at harvesting time, 

Oyster-Cage Harvesting: A Oyster Farmer will pick up around ten Oyster-Cages and throw them in the fridge as soon as possible.

Oyster Restoration

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