From Seed to Market: How One Maine Oyster Farmer Leverages a Growing Market
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Maine BIz] BY LAURIE SCHREIBER - September 6, 2017
Bill Mook started Mook Sea Farm on the Damariscotta River in 1985, and today has bootstrapped his way up to becoming one of the Maine oyster industry's top producers.
A ceaseless entrepreneur, Mook has set the pace by investing in research, new equipment and a skilled workforce. As a result, in just the past decade he's been able to double annual hatchery production to 120 million seeds today, substantially increase feed production, expand his workforce from four to 24 and, in the past year, double weekly production of market-size oysters.
At the same time, he's been tackling issues...
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