It’s pretty hard to stomach such a decline in east coast oysters, mighty sad in fact. But the eastern oyster population in North Carolina has declined an estimated 90 percent since the early 1900s. With your usual culprits to blame including habitat loss, a decline in water quality, and over harvesting. But the construction of a new hatchery research center at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington is working to prevent such a decline and their aspirations are pretty large…
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