LOLA Oyster Seed VA

Selected lines of disease resistant, fast growing triploid oyster brood stock from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science bred in the merroir of Gloucester, Virginia. 

To make the sterile, robust, fast growing triploid, male tetraploid lines are used, also created and improved at ABC, to cross with the female diploid line, which yields triploids.

• A low to medium salinity stock,
• with moderate resistance to MSX
• and high tolerance to Dermo.  
• Notable for good growth performance at low salinities.  
• The ancestors of this stock come from Louisiana and have been hybridized to mid Atlantic lines.
• This stock exhibits fast growth,
• but less MSX resistance than others.
  
• Selected for fast growth in low salinity waters.

Oyster seed set on finely ground cultch resulting in singles for the half shell market.