After pandemic, California oyster farmer confident in industry's return

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While most businesses across the United States remained shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, Terry Sawyer, co-founder of Hog Island Oyster Co had plenty of work to stay busy.

A bag of oysters is seen at Hog Island Oyster Co. in Marshall, California, U.S., May 22, 2020. The company has kept a skeleton crew onsite to maintain its oyster farm amid the coronavirus pandemic. Picture taken May 22, 2020. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino

“When you have something that takes anywhere from a year to three years to get to market size once you plant it, you can’t just ignore it,” Sawyer said. Others in the aquaculture community were equally hard hit. A survey of members by the California Aquaculture Association found 91% of respondents had been “significantly impacted by COVID-19” with sales declines ranging from 50% to 95%.

“If we can’t get out there to do this work, some of them will die because they’ve been too crowded. They’ll be misshapen,” Sawyer said.

 

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Idiots, protests is the only day story of these days. Focus. Divide and rule policy of colonialists should be adopted for US also.

Anybody producing food will be ok. Not great but ok. Not the corporations that sell their food. People will always need to eat.

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