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Hurricane Ida Causes Hiccup in Oysterman’s Attempt To Provide Seed Oysters to The Gulf

Hurricane Ida Causes Hiccup in Oysterman’s Attempt To Provide Seed Oysters to The Gulf

Grand Isle aquaculture oysterman Scott Mauer can attest that even the best-laid plans to avoid disaster often go astray.  As Hurricane Ida approached Louisiana, his seed-oyster business partner Steve Pollock and him evacuated more than 10-million larva to Texas A&M University, and stored another 20-million at the LSU Sea Grant hatchery on the island. Ida managed to take out those at the hatchery and those in Texas died from unknown causes.

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