Rising Tides: Mere Point Oyster and a Love of the Coast — with Dan Devereux

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Dan Devereux has spent more than thirty years working Maine's coast. He'll tell you the hardest part has never been the oysters.

In this episode of Rising Tides, Bill Perna speaks with Dan Devereux, co-founder of Mere Point Oyster Company in Brunswick, about the people who show up every day to do this work — and what it means to build something that earns its place in a community, while helping to open the door for the next generation of people who want to make a life on the water.

Mere Point has become a launchpad for careers in aquaculture and coastal conservation. Dan calls his crew climate warriors: younger people drawn to the water because they believe in what they're building there. At the heart of it, for Dan, is a love of working with the natural world, and a conviction that the best thing people can do for Maine's coast is to take care of it.

Their conversation is as much about community as it is about challenge — and why, for Dan, none of this has ever really been a battle.

Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly.

The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing