Riptide Oysters: The Small Business That Has One Man Dreaming Big

More than 500 million oysters are sold each year in the U.S. More than 30 million of those come from Massachusetts. Riptide Oysters are one of many grown and sold there, and they come from the Westport River, a small estuary in the southern part of the state.

Riptide’s are farmed by a lifelong local, Kerian Fenelly. It’s not an easy job but it is, in many ways, Kerian’s “dream job.”

“There’s no days off from oyster farming. I’m constantly thinking about it, my wife is constantly thinking about it,” he told Yahoo Finance when we visited the farm last month.

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