But in her family, fish meant food, not research questions.

I have always loved science since I was a kid.

I mean, science is asking questions and trying to figure out the answers, which I have been doing my whole life.

Anyone that knew me as a child knows that I had a lot of questions.

And so I kind of followed that scientific curiosity and combined it with my love of the ocean.

So I grew up going to Myrtle Beach, where my dad's family is from, was very connected with the ocean, mostly through fishing.

and fell in love with the ocean fell in love with fish and then when I was in high school I did a summer camp the summer after my sophomore year of high school and it was at that summer camp that someone told me you could get paid to study fish and I thought that was the coolest thing ever and I was so upset that no one had told me that that was a job opportunity before I So then immediately I said, well, I want to study fish.

We asked Jasmine what surprised her most about how it's grown.