Sentence examples for shellfish operations from inspiring English sources

There are currently no fish farms in the two bays, but a number of shellfish operations are already working private tracts that dot the bay bottoms.

Commercial shellfish operations are now routinely monitored for HABs, but controlling recreational harvests is more difficult.

While the tribe is growing a few million oysters this way, Mr. Maugle noted that the project is very small compared to other shellfishing operations in Connecticut and New York.

Mr. Volk, whose agency reviewed the permit application for the Mohegans' larger shellfishing operation, said the tribe's aquaculture company cooperated with the Southern New England Fishermen's Association.

Finding no body, Sanders called 911, loaded what bags he could onto his skiff, and towed the canoe inland, via a narrow canal, passing the rickety docks and large oyster middens of a shellfishing operation called Frog Island.

Cori Rose, senior project manager for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, said the Corps would issue the permit for the larger shellfishing operation by the end of August, but she would not discuss its details.

The seafood industry ceased to be a major factor in the island's economy: most of the oyster-shucking houses, which had continued in operation using imported shellfish despite the local decline in oystering, finally closed in the 1980s and 1990s.

A fertile soil and a temperate growing season favour agriculture; the island's location makes it a base for lobster, shellfish, and groundfish (cod, hake, flounder, and redfish) operations; and its sandy beaches, warm waters, and other tourist amenities attract hundreds of thousands of summer visitors.

The Northwest supplies about half of the U.S. production of oysters and there are major aquaculture operations for both native and introduced shellfish species.

The inadequacy of the bacterial indicators makes it necessary to develop new prevention strategies, based on microbial risk assessment, to ensure the sanitary quality of shellfish, both in production areas and in international trade operations.

Leslie Miklovich, co-owner of Hillard Bloom Shellfish in Norwalk, a subsidiary of Tallmadge Brothers, an oystering company in operation since 1875, said the bed closures had forced the company's clammers to move farther out into the Sound, "but when the wind blows, it's dangerous out there".