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From oysters to an aquarium
After graduating from Bangor University, where we had fallen in love with each other and with Anglesey, we looked for ways to keep living and working on the island.
Growing oysters to top up our student grants turned into a wholesale fish and game business, which we ran for 12 years. People were as fascinated by the fish in the sea as the fish on their plate, so in 1983 we set up the Anglesey Sea Zoo. It became the largest aquarium in Wales.
Both businesses were seasonal, so we sat down to work out what we could sell in winter. We came up with, and threw out, solid sandcastles and bottles of coloured sand. Then we landed on sea salt.
