You might be at a Fourth of July cookout, eyeing a tray of fresh oysters on ice, but holding back because someone once told you to only eat them during months that end in the letter “R.” Or maybe you were at the grocery store, picked up a salmon fillet, noticed the “farm-raised” label, and quietly put it back on the shelf.
A new digital education platform launched by Sea Grant is working to address exactly these kinds of common misconceptions about aquaculture — the farming of fish, shellfish, and other seafood — across the southeastern United States.
