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Ferry Cove Oyster Hatchery Ferry Cove was designed to become one of the largest hatcheries on the East Coast producing the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica). The facility takes advantage of its location on the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, to blend commerce, natural resource protection, education, and research on coastal resiliency-related issues.
The 20,483 GSF building was built from the ground up to be a multi-faceted shellfish production facility. The unique computer control systems enable the facility to manipulate water salinity, temperature, pH, and algae, thereby providing maximum flexibility to mitigate the many environmental conditions that could impact production. The exterior hearkens back to the oyster shucking houses of the 1800s which used to border the Bay with clerestory windows providing amply light for processing.
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