Harvesting oysters at the Carlsbad Aquafarm

The floats can be seen in the background. Each float has a stack of ten trays of oysters below it.
Two freshly harvested stacks can be seen in front of the forklift. They each weigh about 200 pounds.
They are then cleaned off and put in clean water for two days so the sand and other debris can be filtered out.
The filtering is done by the oysters themselves. Each one is capable of filtering 50 gallons of water a day.
The Aquafarm has been in operation sine 1952 and mostly supplies restaurants, but the pulcic is welcome to buy there too.
Learned a lot about oysters and even shucked and ate a few. They were delicious.