The farm would grow and harvest between 100,000 to 400,000 oysters at any given time of the year in cages on the bottom inside a 2.2-acre area in the secluded salt pond.
Young would use at most 200 wire cages, in which the oysters are grown from seed in suspended fine-mesh bags, to protect them from green crabs and other predators
Corea oyster farmer Joe Young wants to expand his operation afterfinetuning his methods to cultivate the succulent bivalves in a salt pond on the southern shore of Gouldsboro Bay.