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Aw Shucks... Oysters in Virginia

By Nancy King

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wmra/local-wmra-794589.mp3

Charlottesville, VA – For four centuries, oyster was king of the Chesapeake Bay -- supporting a way of life on Virginia's Eastern Shore. But by the 1980s, pollution and disease had nearly wiped out the oyster beds. Nancy King reports there is now a glimmer of hope for the beleaguered bivalve.

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