Back in my school days, February was an important month â not just because it included the eagerly-anticipated Valentineâs Day, but because even though it was the shortest month of the year, it encompassed two holidays for which public schools were closed: Lincolnâs Birthday (February 12) and Washingtonâs Birthday (February 22).
Oysters of tropical and semitropical seas are mature and ready to hand on life at the age of three years. Osyters of cool winter waters, as a rule, are mature at the age of four years. Edible oysters are pampered and tended by fishermen. The settled youngsters are called oyster spats until they become two inches long.
pacific oyster crassostrea gigas pacific oysters grow to 12 inches and are found on firm or rocky beaches intertidally to 20 feet their shells are fluted irregular chalky white or gray new growth often colored purple and can be distorted to conform to the shape of the object to which the oyster is attached oysters are often found in groups attached to one another or to an object such as a rock or a shell oysters have uneven valves shells