Abalone Farm near Cayucos
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Cayucous is a great little town just north of Morro Bay. There's a nice little surf break right next to the Caycos pier also. If anyone is taking a road trip in the near future be sure and stop in Morro Bay for some great seafood, that is if you can afford the gas. The Abalone farm is all on shore and the sea water is pumped from the ocean to the tanks where the abalone is rasied. The abalone actually start out very tiny, about the size of the head of a pin.
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That's interesting. Since they are taking water directly from the ocean, what happens if there is an oil spill, or sewage spill?
It looks like the black abalone habitats up and down the coast are shrinking, due to a bacterial infection called Withering Syndrome, loss of habitat due to coastal development and pollution and possibly due to global warming.
http://www.sanctuarysimon.org/monterey/sections/specialSpecies/black_abalone.php
I hope your due diligence in starting some sort of ocean farming venture is taking these things into consideration.
Comment #1 Posted by: Tyler | August 4, 2008 09:11 AM
There is really no significant pollution off our coast at the present time. During a big rain we get a lot of junk in the ocean and it will take a few days of wave action to clean it up. All of the areas where sewage goes into the water it is treated first, you can practically drink the water coming out of a sewage plant. In some places you actually can. In Santa Barbara they had an issue some years ago where the treated sewage pipe did not extend far enough out in the ocean and some shell fish was getting contaminated. The predecesor to Santa Barbara aquaculture actally sued the city of Santa Barbara and made them extend the pipe out further and possibly some other requirments too.
Comment #2 Posted by: Brian | August 4, 2008 04:54 PM