Putting 'Choice' mussels on the American menu

摘要

IN addition to producing Dutch style bottom cultured mussels, Great Eastern Mussel Farms of Long Cove, Tenants Harbor, is growing mussels on Spanish-style rafts, a method which produces 'an extremely high quality mussel'. Each raft produces about 70,000 lb (32 tonnes) of mussels worth more than a dollar per lb (2.22 dollar per kg) wholesale 'We wanted to try to grow the highest quality mussel in the world. And we did. We have the highest meat yields - between 40 and 50%. They're fabulous mussels,' says Chip Davison who founded the company in 1978,