Roger Williams Professor a Guru for Aspiring Shellfish Farmers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Providence Journal] By Alex Kuffner
- March 11, 2015
BRISTOL, R.I. — If you want to become a shellfish farmer, a good place to start isn’t in a South County salt pond or a cove off Narragansett Bay, but in a class on dry land.
This winter and spring, in a lecture hall at Roger Williams University, as he has done here for the past decade, and on Cape Cod for the decade before that, Dale Leavitt is teaching both aspiring shellfish farmers and those with deep experience in aquaculture the ins and outs of growing oysters, quahogs, scallops and mussels.
The course, Applied Shellfish Farming, is, as far as Leavitt knows, the only one of its kind in New England. There were similar classes in Maine and New Jersey, he says, but neither is...
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