{"id":13961,"date":"2017-09-21T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=13961"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T01:02:56","slug":"tracing-each-oyster-from-tide-to-table","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/tracing-each-oyster-from-tide-to-table","title":{"rendered":"Tracing Each Oyster from Tide to Table"},"author":821,"featured_media":14081,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[791,801],"tags":[811,841,831,661],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[478622],"esri_blog_department":[478182],"class_list":["post-13961","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-transformation","category-operational-intelligence","tag-aquaculture","tag-climate-impact","tag-genetic-resilience","tag-operational-intelligence","esri-blog-category-aquaculture","esri_blog_department-natural-resources"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"Taylor Shellfish added a genetics program to adapt their oysters to increased ocean acidity. Tracing each oyster ensures genetic resilience.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"Key takeaways\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Apps and maps provide traceability across each operational stage of production.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Adaptability requires complete understanding of operations.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Digital transformation gets bolstered by ease of use.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Taylor Shellfish Farms, the largest shellfish producer in the US, recently added a genetics program. Rising ocean acidity, and the need to improve the resilience of the clams and oysters it raises, helped drive this decision.\r\n\r\nStarting in 2005, the company began to feel the impact of acidity on its 30 farms, which span 10,000 acres of tidelands in the Pacific Northwest. Hatcheries and wild oysters across the whole region saw a dramatic die-off estimated in the billions. By 2008, production at \u00a0its hatcheries had dropped by 60 percent.\r\n\r\nAfter years of uncertainty, oceanographers made the link to more corrosive acidic waters at higher levels in the water column. Acidification robs young oysters of the minerals they need to make their shells. Without abundant materials, the young oysters work too hard, exhausting themselves and making them prone to disease and die-off.\r\n\r\nHatcheries have invested in high-tech pH sensors to track and cut down on the acidity of the ocean water they pump into their operations. This added awareness helped them to quickly change practices, which led to an oyster rebound.\r\n\r\nThe ordeal sowed doubts about the long-term viability of the whole industry. Taylor Shellfish has heeded this warning, embracing technology to provide clarity on changing conditions and to add greater resiliency to their operations.\r\n\r\nThe company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/digital-transformation\/overview\">digital transformation<\/a> is unfolding against a backdrop of growing demand and reduced output from wild fisheries. This puts <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7Ig-hL_sNdI?t=2m35s\">aquaculture at the forefront<\/a> of maintaining sustainable seafood production to feed a growing population."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":13991,"text":"We can compare farm-to-farm, understand the techniques that lead to improvements, quantify that value, and push the best techniques to other farms.","author_name":"Nyle Taylor","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Tracing oysters<\/strong>\r\n\r\nTaylor Shellfish Farms, a fifth-generation family-owned aquaculture operation based in Shelton, Washington, has steadily expanded the scale and scope of its operations over the years. It started with just one farm that sold the shellfish to a processor. With the next generation, it expanded into processing. More recently, it has added hatcheries and its own oyster bars to sell products direct to customers.\r\n\r\nThe journey of each shellfish starts in the hatcheries where Taylor Shellfish Farms breeds oysters, clams and geoduck; these \u201cseeds\u201d are then planted on its many tidal beaches; it stewards the shellfish until maturity; it then harvests and processes the shellfish; finally, it distributes the shellfish, bringing it to market and to the tables in its oyster bars.\r\n\r\nApps to keep track of each farm bed\u2019s contents and maturity are central to the recently launched genetics program. Taylor aims to add traceability to this awareness, with the benefit of being able to correlate the farm practices present in each oyster\u2019s upbringing. This knowledge will help Taylor with the nature or nurture questions that arise in genetic selection.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe have shuckers that open hundreds of oysters every day in our oyster bars, and they can tell us which ones aren\u2019t looking good,\u201d said Nyle Taylor, Farm Project Coordinator, and fifth-generation family member.\r\n\r\nThis approach combines human sensors, who are experts in shellfish quality, with technology that aggregates information on what happened where. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/what-is-gis\/overview\">Geographic information systems (GIS)<\/a> provides this backbone of capability, and handheld apps accessible anywhere are what farmers use to inform the system.\r\n\r\nWith knowledge of conditions and lineage, Taylor staff can pick the best offspring, looking for resilience to acidity, the greatest growth rates, appearance, and taste.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe grow enough oysters that a 2 or 3 percent improvement in survival has real value,\u201d Taylor said."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":14051,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Sharing knowledge<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThis increased awareness starts in the hands of each farmer. The company provides apps that its farmers and fieldworkers use to track operations on all the farms, from planting the seed, moving the crops, and all maintenance that happens as harvest approaches. These apps communicate with a cloud-based GIS, which provides the ability to visualize and analyze the data to uncover operational inefficiencies.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe can compare farm-to-farm, understand the techniques that lead to improvements, quantify that value, and push the best techniques to other farms,\u201d Taylor said.\r\n\r\nApps also help keep track of inventories, budgets, and all of the various operational details. The company must comply with regulations at the local, state and federal levels that require a lot of permits, and most permits require a map.\r\n\r\nFor years, the company would submit hand-drawn maps for every permit, but this changed when it hired Erin Ewald to the position of Assistant Director of Regulatory and Environmental Compliance. Ewald had experience with GIS, and quickly put it to work for maintaining maps of farm beds. Her first step was to manage and update maps with GIS, and the second step was to make this data mobile.\r\n\r\n\u201cNow, we can compile information and push it to the right people,\u201d Taylor said.\r\n\r\nEasy-to-use apps are a critical component that make this transformation possible.\r\n\r\n\u201cThese apps are so straightforward that our farmers see the benefit,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cThey can use them while they do the work, saving them time, and they don\u2019t have to come to the office to enter data when they\u2019re all wet and muddy from the tide.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":14041,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Stewards of land and people<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe company has adopted environmental processes to make sure farming practices work well with the natural environment in the Puget Sound, taking particular care not to harm the salmon and forage fish species around their farms.\r\n\r\nThe organization prides itself on its long history of environmentalism, achieving the only Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification in the United States that designates their shellfish are farmed responsibly.\r\n\r\nTaylor\u2019s leadership also thinks about its people and its land for the long term.\r\n\r\n\u201cSustainability isn\u2019t just about the environment for us,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cIt\u2019s also about operating responsibly with our employees and in our communities. Paying living wages and providing benefits are important to us, as is making sure our workplace is safe.\u201d\r\n\r\nRecently, one of their farm directors was in a serious car accident and suffered memory loss as a result of his injuries. But, mobile apps that capture farm details and processes have provided the farm manager with a backup, putting all the information about the farm in his hands, and providing assurances that he can pull up exact details when they\u2019re needed.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe\u2019ve reached a size where having the information in everybody\u2019s heads is not the best way of doing things,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cOur digital transformation has allowed us to bring each farmer\u2019s knowledge into a shareable system that can be passed from generation to generation.\u201d\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nListen to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/podcast\/digital-transformation-at-the-largest-oyster-supplier-in-the-us\/\">Esri &amp; The Science of Where Podcast <\/a>with Nyle Taylor to learn more about how location technology increases the quality of his company's products."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>GIS and Handheld Apps Power Taylor\u2019s Digital Transformation<\/strong>\r\n\r\nTaylor Shellfish Farms has expanded its use of GIS through many apps that farm managers and farm workers access on their mobile devices. It can now take real-time data on business, operations, and environment out to their 30 farms. The ability to view GIS data in the field helps the company understand the complexity of its operations.\r\n\r\nThe apps allow farm managers, with years of experience, to redline maps and share real-time changes in conditions or to record suggestions for where each farm could expand. The offline editing capability in <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/explorer\/\">Explorer for ArcGIS<\/a> is crucial as many of the farms are in rural areas with spotty cell signal coverage. Explorer also provides a handy repository for data and attachments, such as for permits that can be shown to Fish and Wildlife inspectors when they come around.\r\n\r\nTaylor uses <a href=\"https:\/\/survey123.arcgis.com\/\">Survey123 for ArcGIS<\/a> for field data collection, such as reports of shoreline debris or the presence of herring spawn, which it\u2019s required to report to regulators. It has created multilingual surveys in English, Spanish and Khmer (the Cambodian language) to help make data collection a habit for diverse crews.\r\n\r\nThe company uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/products\/collector-for-arcgis\">Collector for ArcGIS<\/a> to update operational farm data about its farm beds. The data are used to better evaluate the status of various farms, freeing up information that was previously only in the minds of farmers.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/products\/workforce\">Workforce for ArcGIS<\/a> helps the collaboration with the local Squaxin Tribe in Oakland Bay, Washington, who have been harvesting shellfish there for centuries. A coordinated effort to improve the health of the watershed has been created by managing water quality sample assignments between their field workers and the tribe. Every rain with more than an inch of precipitation triggers sampling, and the company can select and assign sampling points\u2014taking on the marine sampling and assigning freshwater sampling to their tribal colleagues.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/products\/drone2map\">Drone2Map for ArcGIS\u00a0<\/a>has helped greatly improve the mapping of \u00a0farm beds. Drones allow for the capture of beds at low tide with a clear understanding of elevation, which is a critical detail to locate the beds at optimum depth for farming each specific species. The company can better see beach drainage and layout the beds so the seed won\u2019t get washed away.\r\n\r\nFinally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/products\/arcgis-capabilities\/3d-gis\">3D maps<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/en\/\">story maps<\/a> help share the \"Tide to Table\" story with customers, including virtual tours such as the video embedded below.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"},{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","youtube_video_url":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QmD4ffc8u3s "}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taylor Shellfish Uses GIS for Operational Intelligence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Taylor Shellfish added a genetics program to adapt their oysters to increased ocean acidity. 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