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US East Coast’s biggest rope-grown mussel farmer developing indoor hatchery

'[T]he wild seed source for mussels in this region is not something that we want to bet on going into the future' -- Matt Moretti, Bangs Island Mussels

By Jason Huffman | Feb. 7, 2023 15:09 GMT
Matt Moretti, the CEO and co-owner of Bangs Island Mussels, points to the difficult-to-see larval stage mussel seed growing on ropes at his Portland, Maine, headquarters. Photograph by Jason Huffman.
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PORTLAND, Maine, US -- Bangs Island Mussels (BIM), the US East Coast's largest producer of rope-grown mussels, isn't leaving its future source of seed to chance in the wild and climate change-impacted waters of the North Atlantic Ocean [...]

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