Join us at the museum for the second installment of our Winter Lecture Series to learn about the history of shellfish farming and aquaculture on the East End from one of the pioneering women of the 1980's, Karen Rivara. See how this industry has evolved over the last forty years and what the future holds for the local oyster and clam industry. Karen was drawn to shellfish mariculture because she found it very satisfying to grow such important creatures from a fertilized egg.  She hopes that this work will help make the Long Island Estuaries more productive and healthy.

 

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Karen Rivara began work at the Shinnecock Tribe Oyster Project in 1983 and fell in love with shellfish farming.

She is president of Aeros Cultured Oyster Company, Inc., a company she and her former business partner, Jim Markow, began in 1994 as a hatchery in the basement of his house. She moved the hatchery to Shellfisher Preserve, a Peconic Land Trust property in Southold, in 2004. She is a founding member of the Noank Aquaculture Cooperative (2000), East End Marine Farmers Association (2001) (now the Long Island Oyster Growers Association) and the East Coast Shellfish Growers Association (2002). She is the past president of the Long Island Farm Bureau and the East Coast Shellfish Growers Association.