Spat Center
Our most frequent question is "Where can I get Spat?"
Here are several known spat providers as of 02/2025.
Diploid or Triploid?
This VIMS document was created for commercial oyster growers, but the content is educational for oyster gardeners as well.
Spat Providers
Baywatch Oyster Seeds LLC (Triploids Only)
271 Bay Watch Lane, Reedville, Virginia. 22539
Keith Rodgers, baywatchoysterseeds@gmail.com, 804-453-4367, https://baywatchoysterseeds.com.
Oyster Gardening, LLC
Wicomico Church, VA
Darryl Krolicki 703-850-7147
Joyce Krolicki 703-850-7176
Triploid & Diploid spat - floats - supplies
Chesapeake Bay Oyster Company LLC
PO Box 96, Wake, VA 23176
804-776-0220
Office Phone:
804-776-0220
Sales:
804-338-6530
Mike Lightfoot (Triploids Only)
1152 Wilton Rd, Hague, VA
703-919-2723, jacksoncreek1152@gmail.com
Oystermama's Bay-bies (Diploids and Triploids)
Mathews, VA
Judy Ambrose and Justine Kendrick
Call or text 804-725-8557
Ward Oyster Company
Wardoyster.com
https://wardoyster.com/contact-ward-oyster-company/
Eyed Larvae & Oyster Seed Farm
Call Us at 804-693-0044 With Your Questions
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
In Cambridge, MD, contact Stacey Willey (UMCES HPL, phone: 410-221-8330, email: swilley@umces.edu)
https://hatchery.hpl.umces.edu/oyster-seed-sales/