But having already rescued Sunburst from two catastrophes, Eason decided to rebuild once more.
They pressed Eason for information about the family: Were she and her husband having marriage trouble?
"It was such a sick feeling to see all of those white bellies floating in there, " Eason recalls.
Eason's family fixed the pipe and raceway intake systems themselves and limped along for the next 14 months.
At 5:30 a.m. last Aug. 10, Sally Eason, the second-generation owner of Sunburst Trout Farm in Canton, N.
Then there was then-CNN news chief Eason Jordan's remarkable op-ed in The New York Times in April 2003.
Eason, 54, briefly considered shuttering the business, which supports her, her husband, Steven, and their two grown sons, Wesley and Benjamin.
"To this day, I'm not sure how they knew that, " Eason says.
Endia, who I think is here -- Ms. Eason, are you here?
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And Mr. Eason is a former Marine, served in the Korean War.
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"If you maintain a calm, non-aggressive manner it's a well-known fact that eventually the aggressor will mimic your manner and calm down, " says Mr Eason.
But three weeks later Eason and her father decided to rebuild.
Eason, who was trained as a pediatric nurse, was a stay-at-home mom until a bookkeeper at the trout farm left suddenly in 1985 and she was pressed into service.
Until then the family had viewed the eggs as a nuisance that would "fall out of the fish on the processing room floor and create a yucky mess, " says Eason.
Ms. Eason makes a really good sweet potato pie.
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In the early 1990s Jennings and Eason, who was by then running day-to-day operations, began to expand, adding hot- and cold-smoked fillets, smoked-trout dip, trout sausage, chowder and mousse to their offerings.
Whatever people choose to do, says wedding magazines editor Ms Eason, it is more likely nowadays that they will use the different ways available to them to "put their own stamp" on the event.
In March Eason served on a sustainable aquaculture panel with a seafood and deli executive from Wal-Mart, which says it will only source fish from farms that meet environmental standards set by the Marine Stewardship Council.
In this time, I have been reinforced by so many individuals, including my family, business mentors, board members, colleagues, volunteers and donors, but it is the children and families who have taught me the most, especially my Little Sister of 15 years, KeSheara Ross-Eason.
"Lowe's is a highly respected retailer in the marketplace and a valued customer, and this is a great opportunity to be the exclusive wireless provider of its award-winning Iris smart home solution, " said Scott Eason, vice president of retail and financial services, Verizon Enterprise Solutions.
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In March Eason served on a sustainable aquaculture panel with a seafood and deli executive from Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ), which says it will only source fish from farms that meet environmental standards set by the Marine Stewardship Council.
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