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Article: Family operations continue Norwalk's oyster industry.(Hillard Bloom Shellfish Inc.)(Company Profile)
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- Fairfield County Business Journal
- Article date:
- September 8, 2003
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Norwalk's annual Oyster Festival in early September celebrates one of the city's longest-surviving industries: Oyster farming and harvesting--an industry that dates back to the 1700s.
By the late 1800s, Norwalk was the acknowledged Oyster capital of the nation when the town's oystermen boasted the largest fleet of steam-powered boats in the world. But it wasn't just the mechanics of farming and harvesting that put Norwalk on the map. It was the taste of the oysters harvested off the city's shores.
"I used to do a lot of trade shows," said Leslie Miklovich, vice president of Hillard Bloom Shellfish Inc. (www.hillardbloomshellfish.com). Trade show ...
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