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Courtesy of www.longline.co.uk
In the United Kingdom and elsewhere, oysters are sometimes grown
off the bottom, suspended from long lines like these that float in the
water attached to plastic buoys. This is one possible solution to a sud-
den crisis for the Willapa Bay oyster industry following this weekend’s
sudden collapse of a regulatory effort to license a new pesticide to kill
burrowing shrimp.
Willapa oyster trade
faces turning point
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cultivation methods are vital
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