March 2020
One of the challenges of the restoration project, and a subject for more research, is where to place the juvenile oysters on the seabed to recreate the historic beds. We know where some of them used to be, and where a few remnant oysters still cling on. However, recently, we’ve made an important discovery in the Craignish Estate papers. In 1958, the Crown Estate gave William Younger a nine-year lease to dredge native oysters outside Dunvullaig Bay. The accompanying chart clea