“Some fishers saw us working 12 hours a day on our oyster raft and said: What are you doing dude? Just buy a boat! Seining is so easy. Well, sadly some of them are out of business now,” says Greg Bates, co-owner of Alaska Shellfish Farms, one of the state’s largest Pacific oyster producers.

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