Joseph Rueter, Founder

    Obsessed with using Oysters as a biological microfilter, O.C.B. founder Joe Rueter, has worked in many ways to promote the filtration viability of Oysters for water quality restoration purposes. In 2002 as a collage Aquaculture intern

in Gloucester Massachusetts, he witnessed firsthand the oyster's ability to remove fluorocarbons, toxins, PCB's and even feces when used as a companion species in salmon hatchery tanks.  This ignited a passion for oysters as a way to remove many types of pollution not just from aquaculture operation's tanks but the entire global ocean as a whole. 

"Oysters are a Marine Biofilter, 

more valuable Living in Bioremediation 

than Harvested, Shucked and Eaten." - Joe Rueter

Rose Sherman is an Aquatic Toxicologist graduate of University of California Davis. Her study's focus was on the adverse effects of anthropogenic sources upon interaction with the aquatic environment. She has assisted in projects on the San Francisco Bay Estuary and along the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta with experience in water quality sampling, assessment, and analysis.