Native Oysters of San Francisco Bay Can Take Some Heat
The tiny native oysters of San Francisco Bay managed to outlive the Gold Rush, bay-shore development and decades of punishing pollution. New research shows they have a fighting chance to survive global warming as well.
A different species than the farmed Pacific oysters slurped up in restaurants, Olympia oysters are the West Coast's only native oyster species, once forming huge reefs along thousands of miles of coastline from Baja California to British Columbia. Though delicious, they're not as commercially viable and can't be safely harvested from...
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