A little over two years ago Jim Gossen gave a talk to a group of Louisiana oystermen gathered on Grand Isle. He had filled boxes with the prettiest oysters from both the east and west coast. Beausoleil oysters in one little box, and Island Creeks in another.
Putting them on a table he told the group, “these oysters are three times better than yours, they must be because they are getting more than three times the price.”
Gossen didn’t realize it at the time, but this was his entrance into the world of oyster farming – the Grand Isle Caminada Bay Oyster Farm project.
“The oyster fisherman sure didn’t like what I was saying,” emphasized Gossen, founder and current chairman of Sysco Louisiana Foods. “I told them that it was time to start searching for a solution on how Louisiana oysters could compete with smaller, prettier oysters from the east and west coasts.”
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