Screening oysters at a large-scale seed oyster production facility, such as The New Jersey Aquaculture Innovation Center (AIC) at Rutgers University can be a daunting task if done by hand.
The 22,000-square-foot facility produces disease-resistant, fast-growing seed oysters for commercial grow-out, research and native oyster bed restoration and it churns out more than 10 million seed oysters per year. Due to this sheer size, “sorting by size for counting and redistribution in the ‘nursery’ is a frequent and essential operation in the seed oyster production cycle,” Rutgers said.
