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Crisis in the halfshell
Rob Tryon set out to revolutionize BC’s shellfish industry using social media, science and showmanship. A decade later, the tide turned — and he walked away. BY QUINN BENDER IT STARTED WITH A TWEET. For 13 years, Rob Tryon worked the quiet rhythms of his father’s oyster farm at NW Aquaculture, tucked into Effingham Inlet on Vancouver Island’s remote west coast. One day, standing in the aluminum harvester, he towed a processing hut across the cove to one of the many rickety wo
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