Adrian Michaelis
Assistant Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) and an ecological anthropologist researching the social dimensions of oyster aquaculture, fisheries, and coastal communities.
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Jul 28, 2026
Kevin CoxHOST
What does a community do, Adrian, a whole oyster region that is having this problem? What do they do to address it on kind of a broader basis?
Adrian MichaelisGUEST
If they're losing both wild or farm, that is loss of crop, loss of wild reefs.
Adrian MichaelisGUEST
That isn't just that one year because oysters don't grow to adulthood within a month or two.
Adrian MichaelisGUEST
So that business is impacted for several years, at least, depending on the scale of disease.
Adrian MichaelisGUEST
And you can see it impact the supply chain, so whoever's buying the oysters.
8 MINS LATER
Kevin CoxHOST
So when something like MSX threatens not just a crop, but a way of life, how does both a grower and an entire community respond?