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.
Oyster Facts. Biology When condition are right the female Pacific oyster may spawn up to 200 million eggs in a season, expelling them into the water where they are fertilized by sperm from the male. Only a very few of these eggs, of course, develop to mature larvae; and still fewer are able to find suitable hard, clean surfaces to set.