SEBASTIAN, Fla.- A Treasure Coast woman embarks on the task of her dreams, taking a chance at a time when many other people are suffering to make the end of the month.
COVID-19 leaves many other people suffering to be placed in a complicated task market.
A Treasure Coast woman has made the decision to nevertheless pursue her hobby and start her own business, rare in our state and can put local oysters on her plate.
Nicolette Mariano is from Martin County and grew up loving water, marine life and aquaculture.
“Salt water runs through my veins, I suppose, ” said Mariano.
He has worked in aquaculture and industry for years, focusing on oysters.
“I’ve never been a user who likes to be indoors all day or in a booth,” Mariano laughed.
But he lost his job in aquaculture in March when coronavirus began to have primary effects on employment.
“Now I just have to make paintings, ” said Mariano.” It’s like doing or dying right now to get there.”
But with the extra time, instead of looking to locate some other study assignment or other aquaculture assignment for someone else, she took her own business, Treasure Coast Shellfish.
He has been granted an oyster crop at the Indian River Lagoon in Sebastian, with plans to produce between 150,000 and 200,000 oysters.
“It produces a beautiful salt oyster, ” said Mariano.
You also need to sell your oysters only to restaurants but also to private individuals.
“Oysters are called Sebastian Salado Silver by the 1715 treasure coast fleet and its old importance,” Mariano said.
He is now one of two people who grows oysters on Florida’s east coast, he said, and knows that he does much more than make local oysters more popular.
“An adult oyster about 3 inches long can remove up to 50 to 60 gallons of water during the day,” Mariano said.
Mariano is also pleased to make its water quality component, attract more marine life to the Indian River Lagoon and repair some of the oyster populations that have declined over the years.
“I created my little ecosystem and it gave me hope,” Mariano said.
Lately it is running to protect a storefront to facilitate the delivery of its oysters to consumers.
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