UMaine Student Develops Tool to Help Maine Oyster Farms Survive Winter Losses
Last summer, Sofia Diaz Flint spent her days working on a Maine oyster farm, hauling cages and tending shellfish that would not reach the market for another year.
Seeing firsthand how much farmers depend on their crop surviving the winter shaped the direction of her senior capstone project at the University of Maine.
“I worked on an oyster farm and wanted to base my project on oysters,” she said.
Now, Diaz Flint, a marine science major with a concentration in...
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