With a 20 mph north wind whipping up whitecaps on Caminada Bay, it’s a Saturday where most small boat owners have second thoughts about venturing from shore. But not Steve Pollock.

He has to check his oysters.

If Pollock’s 19-foot pleasure craft seems an unconventional commercial fishing boat, he and his wife, Ginger Brininstool, are even more unlikely oystermen. Each teaches biology at LSU, and, until recently, aquariums were their primary contact with marine life.

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