How do you harvest oysters?

We harvest oysters by bending over and picking them up off the beach. We put them in a net, and leave them on the beach until the morning that we will process them. Then the nets of oysters are marked by floating corks and are picked up by one of our boats, and brought straight to the plant for processing that day. Oysters grow in the inter-tidal zone, which is the part of the beach that is covered with water at high tide, and exposed at low tide. In British Columbia, the tide ranges from 0 - 16 feet, which means that we have lots of room to grow oysters.