With plates of shucked oysters as centerpieces, Senator Jack Reed hosted a brief, roundtable discussion Monday at a South Kingstown restaurant on the eve of National Oyster Day, to celebrate the growth of the industry in Rhode Island.
"The cultivation, the aquaculturist, all of these people coming together and really creating jobs and creating a new wrinkle in our economy," Reed said of the gathering.
Then, about a dozen participants climbed aboard a boat to tour nearby Potter Pond, and the oyster farm maintained by Matunuck Oyster Bar owner Perry Raso. Reed donned hip waders and jumped overboard to join Raso for a brief inspection of the oysters, which cling to and grow inside wire mesh cages just beneath the water's surface.
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