{"id":8598,"date":"2017-07-06T13:16:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=8598"},"modified":"2024-08-20T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:35:12","slug":"sea-science-growing-better-bivalves-science-local-knowledge-enhance-n-c-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/sea-science-growing-better-bivalves-science-local-knowledge-enhance-n-c-business\/","title":{"rendered":"SEA SCIENCE: Growing Better Bivalves: Science, Local Knowledge Enhance N.C. Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Media stories often cite Sandbar Oyster Company as an unlikely partnership between a scientist and a fisherman \u2014 a successful duo not only in the half-shell market, but also in ecological restoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not my normal consideration of what a scientist would be like.\u201d That\u2019s how fisherman David Cessna, better known simply as Clammerhead, describes Niels Lindquist in a WRAL-TV story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A closer look reveals the collaboration is not so surprising. A few years back, they were part of an applied research team studying N.C. fisheries and habitats. Administered by North Carolina Sea Grant<\/a>, those research projects required one or more partners from the fishing industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe had many days working together on the water,\u201d recalls Lindquist, who teaches at the Institute of Marine Sciences of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a>. \u201cWhat started as general conversations evolved into deeper discussion and debate, and ultimately to a greater understanding of \u2014 and trust in \u2014 each other\u2019s knowledge of North Carolina oysters and our particular skills within the team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n