Some say the town's economic plight is a result of the federal government's closing the local oyster beds after bacteria showed up in tests.
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The potential effect on shellfish in the sound _ which includes some major oyster beds _ was not immediately known, the Coast Guard said.
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In a worst-case scenario, winds from the south or west could push oily water over the levees and contaminate the oyster beds, he said.
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In the 1970s, newspaper reports revealed that poachers were raiding oyster beds and oyster farmers were even being kidnapped during cross-border conflicts with China.
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It holds commercial oyster beds, and is untainted enough to be one of only 23 National Estuarine Reserves where teams of biologists conduct research.
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The lake was used for salt-making during the Roman settlement of the island, and is also thought to have functioned as an oyster bed.
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The slick has been washing up on land, sullying beaches and oyster beds with foul-smelling patches of thick, gummy oil and killing thousands of birds.
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A half-million-gallon oil spill in the lower Mississippi River poses a remote threat to half of Louisiana's oyster beds at the height of oyster-farming season.
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The prolonged, early heat wave and lack of rain changed the normal temperature and quality of the bay water around the oyster beds, he said.
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When the team was off last week, he went oyster hunting in North Carolina, and cut his feet on sharp shells in an oyster bed.
