Solar-Powered Oyster Sorter Makes a Difference at DEon Oyster Company

TUSKET, N.S. — An oyster sorter that runs off solar power is making the workload a lot easier for the owners of DEon Oyster Company, formerly known as Eel Lake Oyster Farm, in Yarmouth County.

On Aug. 1, a group of invited guests took a short boat ride to a barge to see the machine demonstrated in Salt Bay.

The oyster farm originally focused its growing efforts in Eel Lake but now grows 75 per cent of its product across the road in Salt Bay, where a new “business park on the sea” has been developed by the Municipality of Argyle.

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