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Overharvesting Our OysterReefs – Now at 1% level
(borrowed from NOAA website)
Overharvesting, habitat destruction, pollution, and disease have reduced native oyster populations to less than one percent of historic levels. The tremendous decline has caused the loss of the three-dimensional oyster reef structures which provide essential fish habitat for oysters as well as other shellfish, finfish, and blue crabs.