New Jersey Wants Another Year to Settle Oyster Research Flap
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Associated Press] By WAYNE PARRY- October 5, 2015
New Jersey wants another year to decide one of its most intractable environmental issues: whether to allow experimental oyster colonies in polluted areas to see if they can help clean the waterways.
The research is designed to see if re-establishing oysters in areas like the Raritan Bay can help improve water quality by using their natural filtering techniques.
But what's been holding up the research, which the state abruptly halted in 2010, is how to make sure poachers don't sneak in and grab the oysters, selling them and potentially...
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