Morse quoted in Press Herald report on Maine oyster farms
Dana Morse, a scientist with Maine Sea Grant and University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for an article about how aquaculture is helping Maine’s oyster industry. According to the Maine Department of Marine Resources, Maine has 60 oyster farms, with another 13 permits pending, and the majority of oysters that are sold as food in Maine are farmed. “It’s possible to overload an area with aquaculture, but … we are a ways away from that,” Morse said. In recent years, Morse said “wild” oysters have been showing up on the shorelines again, the likely products of successful spawns from the farmed oysters, the article states.