Oysters on the brink From: International Herald Tribune | Date: August 16, 2005 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

International Herald Tribune
08-16-2005
Efforts to constrain human behavior to protect wildlife inevitably provoke debate, never more so than when the wildlife in question is delicious. Thus the uproar in America about a commercially harvested animal that many people are on slurping terms with the plain old Eastern oyster, a humble species that ranges from New England to the Yucatan. Its remarkable fecundity and hardiness has allowed it to hang on despite overharvesting, habitat loss and pollution. Still, it is not doing nearly as well as it used to, particularly in the Chesapeake Bay. The ...

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