Maturing Oyster Recovery Projects Bring Calls For Money

WAYNE PARRY Associated Press, San Diego Union-Tribune Nation
Sun, 07/24/2016 - 5:24am

Oysters were once so abundant in New Jersey that vacationers would clamber off trains, wade into the water and pluck handfuls to roast for dinner. Their colonies piled so high that boats would sometimes run aground on them, and they were incorporated into navigation maps. Even earlier, Native American tribes would have oyster feasts on the banks of coastal inlets.

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