Oyster-ology Podcast Feature
The Realities of Oyster Farming in Alaska with Eric Wyatt — OR — From Death Comes Experience… In this eye-opening episode of OYSTER-ology, host Kevin Cox delves into the formidable challenges of oyster farming in Alaska with Eric Wyatt, founder of Blue Starr Oysters. Eric recounts the journey from his fishing roots to building a…
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SK Video
Severin Korfage made this super cool video, partially with his drone, of sites right around our home and farm. Enjoy!
2019
This is going to be a super year. We will have good amounts of Pacific oyster seed available, and soon will have a second FLUPSY online. The nominal price per thousand of diploid 1/2″ screen Pacific oyster seed is $45/1000. Deposits in advance guarantee your place in the line up, for the quantities deposited toward.…
2017 Season
We are off to a good start for 2017. Selling some of the best market oysters ever, which were available at the New York Cafe in Ketchikan. Have piles of new oyster seed coming into the FLUPSY. It’s going to be a great year!
2015 Season: Oyster Nursery selling 1/2″ screen seed
UPDATE: We have millions of beautiful baby oysters from OceansAlaska in Ketchikan and Hawaiian Shellfish in Hilo. They are growing great and should be coming to size on schedule. Out of about 4 million, we could have as much as 1.5 million that are not yet spoken for. Usually we are over subscribed, but the…
2014 season
My apologies for not posting sooner. 2014 has been a very busy year. We’ve sold about 2.5 times as much seed this year as last and sold more oysters then ever.
Lay up
The FLUPSY is layed up for winter. Thanks to all of our customers for a successful season. 2014 will be even better. 11/25/13
New water screener
Just got the new water screening table in from Forbidden Alloy LTd. of Courtney BC. Photos to follow. Going to test it out today.
Sales
We have the fist million sold, orders for the second million lined up and ready to book the next one. Make sure that I hear from you so that you don’t “fall through the cracks”.
Sales Orders
We are lining up sales. You can “get in line” by emailing me at alaskan@bluestarroysters.com or call Anthony Lindoff at 907-586-9271. He will make sure that I’ve got your info. The steps to keep your place in line are: 1. Fill out an return (via email or USPS) your Sales order. You can send in…
Update 6/25/13
Water temps in the shade at 58-59F. Growth is excellent. Site inspection by ADF&G and DNR today. All is good.
Conditions update
6-15-13 Water temps starting to spike above 13C (to 56F) in shade at 3 ft depth. Blooms of Noctiluca in area, but bins clear except for slight surface scum.
ADF&G Certification
We are not yet certified by ADF&G to sell seed. If you submit an application for a transport permit (from us to you) before we are certified, then ADF&G will hold it until we are. The certification is to ensure that our product is “disease free.”
Update 6/12/13
Seed is growing great. Water temps are climbing up to 52-55F. Some Noctiluca bloom, but not down in the bins – so all OK there. Doing more “hand sorting” with 1/4″ screen today. Water sort table should be on it’s way to the Seattle barge today – then to Craig next week. This item will…
Seed on hand
6/7/2013 Here is a shot of the current seed in inventory. Very robust .
Seed inventory
We currently have around one million seed onboard. This batch is already spoken for. We are scheduled to receive more small stuff soon and will update on that.
Pricing for seed
Currently, the price for 20mm+ seed is $40/thousand f.o.b. Tokeen Bay. We can arrange to receive you at the nursery, meet you in Naukati Bay, put your order on a floatplane, or ship via Alaska Airlines. Shipping costs are paid by the buyer. Contact us to make it work for you.
Shellfish Nursery
We are now operating (for Haa Aani LLC) a FLoating UPwelling SYstem shellfish nursery – which is better known as an oyster FLUPSY. The nursery is located in Tokeen Bay, on the outer coast of Prince of Wales Island. We will be using this site to publish updates on the seed growing operation to aid…
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