Several months ago at lunch we gave ourselves a challenge: “Could we turn one of the new wet labs into a compact shellfish hatchery that could be used for our Olympia Oyster restoration efforts and produce significant numbers of shellfish seed for commercial research?”. More importantly could we take lessons from the building systems and make the hatchery as energy efficient as possible?
After a lot of hard work by the team, this week our new “compact hatchery” really came on line. This is what it looks like from the public viewing mezzanine. Read on for a long geeky shellfish explanation of what we are up to and some shots of us spawning geoducks which is pretty crazy in itself. Read the rest of this entry »
