His World Is the Oyster

An uninspiring accounting internship convinced Kevin Dory ’15 to take a leap after graduation into something he knew little about: oyster farming. Now the owner of High Tide Oyster & Supply in his hometown of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dory hopes to change the entire industry. “If a farmer from the 1700s saw how much technology exists today, and that we don’t use any of it, they’d be insulted,” he says. Dory bought a boat that’s three times the size of the ones neighboring farmers use, plus a crane to aid in harvesting. Technology, he says, is the way forward in oyster farming: “There are plenty of advances that people don’t seem to be using. I want to work in a way that we don’t have to be so reliant on the weather and on bending over and picking stuff up.” ◽