Entrepreneur leverages multiple directions in booming oyster market
Brendan Parsons is leveraging Maine’s booming oyster farming industry in a big way, as he enters the market from several different directions.
The Lincoln County News reported Parsons has an expanding slate of oyster-based businesses underway. In March, he opened Damariscotta River Distribution in Newcastle, where he cleans and sorts oysters for delivery to restaurants across the state as well as to his own oyster-selling food carts and catering operation, which operate under the name BP’s Shuck Shack. Now he’s opened River Bottom Raw Bar, also in Newcastle.
The bar’s employees have all worked on oyster farms, and as part of their training spend at least a day working with farmers on the Damariscotta River to get a better understanding of how the industry works, Parsons told the paper.
“There’s a huge educational component to all of this,” Parsons told the newspaper in May. “Aquaculture is such a huge part of this region, and I hope that doing something like this helps to bring more public awareness to it.”
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