WRANGELL — Brian Herman, owner of Canoe Lagoon Oysters, didn’t attend last month’s Mariculture Conference of Alaska in Anchorage. He was busy at work.
Last year, he shipped out about 110,000 oysters raised at his farm 30 miles south of Wrangell on the Blashke Islands. This year he expects to more than double that volume.
“There is a ton of growth potential,” Herman said. While the in-state market “is fairly well tapped … shipping to the Lower 48 is a completely untapped market.”
And that’s where he focuses his efforts. “I have inquiries every month about our oysters.”
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