We went inside Ward Oyster Company to see how it harvests 3.5 million oysters every year.
Since 1996, they ve gone from farming 100,000 oysters per year to 3.5 million in 2019.
Following is a transcription of the video.
Narrator: These cages contain more than 30 million oysters. They are grown here at one of the largest oyster farms on the East Coast, but these little guys are hard to cultivate. They need constant care, or else an entire crop can get wiped out.
Jared Lawson: It s kind of a good mixture of science and heavy labor. So it s hard work, long hours. It s seven days a week.
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