Dale Stewart Parsons is a fifth-generation bayman and seafood purveyor in Tuckerton. His family has been making their living from the bounty of the bay since 1909.
His father, also Dale Parsons, ran Parsons Seafood in Tuckerton with his mother, Wanda, acting as bookkeeper, after his father, Jack, retired. His son also worked in the bay and the clam house. Beginning in the 1990s, Dale Stewart Parsons began teaching himself aquaculture – the science of growing seafood in controlled environments.
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