Spat Center
Our most frequent question is "Where can I get Spat?" TOGA makes spat, baby oysters or oyster 'seed', available for sale at our two Annual Float and Spat Sales each Fall and Spring.
Your main choice is whether you want spat that are diploid or triploid:
-
Diploid oysters will grow more slowly and they can reproduce to make more oysters.
-
Triploid oysters will grow to 3 inches in about 18 months but are sterile and don't reproduce. They were grown for eating and don't thin out during reproductive months.
Here are several known spat providers who often also sell at our events but make spat available at other times of the year as well (as of 07/2025).
Choosing Spat for Your Oyster Garden
If the above was not enough info, this VIMS document provides more information on choosing spat.
Spat Providers
Many of these vendors will sell spat at TOGA's two yearly Float and Spat Sales. You can also contact them at other times for purchases.
Baywatch Oyster Seeds LLC
(Triploids Only)
271 Bay Watch Lane, Reedville, VA22539
Keith Rodgers, baywatchoysterseeds@gmail.com, 804-453-4367 https://baywatchoysterseeds.com
Chesapeake Bay Oyster Company LLC
PO Box 96, Wake, VA 23176
Office Phone: 804-776-0220
Sales: 804-338-6530
Happy Oysters
Angelina de Rosa Manyak, Owner/Farmer
https://www.virginiaoysterseed.com
804-577-3833
Mike Lightfoot
(Triploids Only)
1152 Wilton Rd, Hague, VA
703-919-2723, jacksoncreek1152@gmail.com
Oyster Gardening, LLC
Wicomico Church, VA
Darryl Krolicki 703-850-7147, darryl@oystergardening.com
Joyce Krolicki 703-850-7176
Triploid & Diploid spat - floats - supplies
Oystermama's Bay-bies has unfortunately gone out of business! Thank you Judy!
Ward Oyster Company
Contact them on their website or call
Eyed Larvae & Oyster Seed Farm
804-693-0044
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Cambridge, MD
Stacey Willey 410-221-8330, swilley@umces.edu
https://hatchery.hpl.umces.edu/oyster-seed-sales/
Please contact TOGA if you have spat for sale in other Tidewater areas!