This Once Iconic Oyster Industry Crashed. Soon, Harvesting Will Begin Again.
Chad Hanson remembers a time, not so long ago, when driving on a bridge across Florida's Apalachicola Bay meant witnessing an astounding sight.
"You'd see just boats lined up along the reefs and spread out," he said of the hundreds of oyster fisherman that used to harvest from roughly 10,000 acres of the bay. For generations, those boats helped fuel the local economy and provided 90 percent of the oysters harvested in Florida, as well as about 10 percent of the nation's wild caught oysters...
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