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Article: OYSTER WARS ENDED IN FRIENDSHIP EARLY RIVALS KEPT INDUSTRY ALIVE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 8, 2000
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At a convention of oyster growers in Vancouver last fall, Jerry Yamashita and Dick Steele stood as 76-year-old allies honored for their life's work. They spoke fondly of one another and of the battles they have fought together.
In the decades preceding World War II, however, the fathers of these men wrote quite another history as they wrestled to control oyster seed imported from Japan.
The seed brought the Northwest oyster industry back to life after the near extinction of the delicate native Olympia oyster. The Olympia needed a thick cover of water to survive cold winters, and that habitat was quickly disappearing to development. But the Japanese ...
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