This is Beej here – reporting interesting information on oysters. This post was created because I was curious about oysters after seeing this:
Here is what we found out from www.oystersautralia.org.au .They get credit for all the info and pictures- except the oyster farm picture we took from the boardwalk.
We are only going to talk about Australian oysters.
New South Wales,
South Australia and Tasmania produced almost all of the 16.45 million dozen
oysters sold in 2007:
Oysters are bivalves. They eat by filtering algae and stuff,
like phytoplankton, from sea water.
Oysters need clear salt water at a specific pH and relatively
warm temp (14-30 Celsius).
Oysters change gender during their life (WHAT??)- females
release up to 40 million eggs and then
the male releases over twice that many sperm to fertilize the eggs. Babies –called
larvae or spat- settle on rocks and hard places to grow.
I have yet to taste raw oysters, but I think I would like to
try them… have you eaten them? What did you think?
WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?change gender?!?!?!?!? Cool post!! :P
ReplyDeleteWell, yes, I have eaten raw oysters in New Orleans. It's a regional thing, Oysters Rockefeller, which was created in New Orleans. You can find out more about it on Wikipedia. It was actually pretty good. But if given a choice between raw oysters and cooked okra, I would pick cooked okra while Alan would pick raw oysters.
ReplyDeleteBeej, did you eat any oysters yet? I don't know if my two guys have or not; I don't think so, but they are fans of clams, so maybe they might try some at some point too. We LOVE reading your blogs and so appreciate being able to journey along with you guys. Love you all!
ReplyDeleteWow! Interesting stuff! No wonder I don't like raw oysters....anything that were once called larvae probably shouldn't be eaten! :)
ReplyDeleteBeej, you sound like you are having fun. How do you change gender if you are an oyster? Miss you all!
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