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Ambitious project aims to coax oysters back to New York waters
Murray Fisher (above, at left), executive director of the New York Harbor Foundation, and a staff member placing oysters into a floating cage in Bayswater Point State Park in New York.
PHOTO: NYT
Murray Fisher, executive director of the New York Harbor Foundation, and a staff member placing oysters into a floating cage in Bayswater Point State Park in New York.
PHOTO: NYT
New York
TORRENTIAL rain poured down on the team of scientists and conservationists on Jamaica Bay as their small boat slowly towed about 85 cages packed with 36,000 oysters, a species that once blanketed New York Harbor but is now nearly extinct there.
"We are quite the sight,"
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