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The Oyster Makes its Return to the Hudson and the Chesapeake

A CLASSIC COMEBACK

Entrepreneurs are reintroducing bivalves to famous waterways—with great success.

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What courageous soul first braved the oyster? Surely, our stone-age predecessors had watched crabs eat them, but crabs are belligerent, armored water spiders, not role models.

Bless the intrepid.

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At some point people discovered the joys of slurping oysters and then proceeded to eat a lot of them.

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