Growing the ‘best damn oyster’: Inside the effort to get local oyster farming up to speed
Story Date: 2/6/2017

 

Source: PORT CITY DAILY, 1/27/17

Oyster farming is sustainable, environmentally beneficial and potentially lucrative. So why doesn’t North Carolina have more oyster farms? “There’s no reason not to do this,” said Tim Holbrook, owner of the Masonboro Reserve Oyster Co., “They’re good for the environment, they’re delicious. And it’s not a bad office. “And yet,” he added, “most of the oysters people eat in North Carolina are from somewhere else.”

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