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COASTAL LIFE
Inspirational days on the bay
Columnist David Campiche recalls his youthful oyster-picking days
THE ARTS
‘It was always music’
Country singer Tayla Lynn comes to Astoria with Eric Tingstad
FEATURE
Oystering on Willapa Bay
Washington oyster farmers have been growing oysters since 1851
DINING
Mouth of the Columbia
Gearhart’s El Trio Loco presents long menu, well-prepared platters
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Elkhorn Oyster Company increasingly grows its oys-
ters on longlines, which involves spacing set shells
along rope suspended from PVC posts above the bot-
tom of Willapa Bay. This overcomes shrimp problems
and reduces predation from crabs, though the practice
is labor intensive.
Photo by Dwight Caswell
See story on Page 12
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Gardener gives talk on soil amendments
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