Boston Globe — Reed, Whitehouse don waders to recognize $1.6M aquaculture earmark

Susanna Osinski, Roger Williams University shellfish field technician, and Roger Williams University President Ioannis Miaoulis donned waders during Monday's oyster farm tour. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

Aug 8, 2022

By Brian Amaral — The money will help make growing oysters and other shellfish more effective and accessible to would-be farmers.

BRISTOL — Ioannis Miaoulis loves oysters. Back in 2016, even before he became the president of Roger Williams University, he ate 180 of them in one hour at a restaurant in New Orleans, a food challenge that got his name immortalized by the Acme Oyster House.

But he’d never gotten to see, so up close and personal and wet to the knees, all the work that goes into making them — until Monday, when he donned waders and joined U.S. Sens. Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse for a tour of RWU’s campus oyster farm.

And the big takeaway? Hard as it is to eat 15 dozen oysters, it’s even harder to make them.

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