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Oil Field Trash II
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 Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 2:14 pm Post subject: corpus christi bay as an oyster/shellfish environment? |
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Is it realistic for corpus christi bay to be suitable for shellfish to thrive?
too deep? too much sediment in the water? opinions, please.
I know there are some around indian point, and nueces bay. Just curious about CC bay in general. |
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Jason Slocum
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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A very wise oyster guy  I think his name was something like Sammy Ray (He had one of them fancy post hole digger degrees) always said "if oysters aren't there naturally they can't live there artificially"
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Central Scrutinizer
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I'm familiar with the Mr. Ray of whom you speak. Smart fellow - sorely missed.
Numerous problems with trying to get oysters in CC Bay. No hard bottom for the spat to attach, salinity typically too high, too deep in most areas. Sammy was on to something, because you take a plankton sample, and the bay is not wanting for veligers !!!
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Johninaustin
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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There are oyster reefs in CC bay. Used to be more but they were dredged for road base. I fished several as a kid. The best one was right offshore of the Ocean Drive/Peonish (sp) intersection.
Same with Nueces bay.
If you put down hard structure, you would get oysters. I'm not sure depth has anything to do with it, Some of those reefs were 10'-15' down. |
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