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Article: THE LYNNHAVEN OYSTER CAN AN OLD FAVORITE MAKE A COMEBACK? DISCOVERY OF SURVIVING OYSTERS IN LYNNHAVEN RIVER HAS PROMPTED NATURAL RESOURCES OFFICIALS TO TRY TO PROPAGATE THE LAST SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE BELOVED SHELLFISH.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 13, 1997
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Byline: SCOTT HARPER, STAFF WRITER
VIRGINIA BEACH -- When they would sit down to eat oysters, presidents and kings once insisted on the sweet, saucer-sized behemoths that grew in the salty shallows of the Lynnhaven River.
But with development of homes and shopping malls came pollution. By the mid-1980s, the Lynnhaven had been closed to shellfish harvesting, taking with it a way of life on the water and supplies of this coveted delicacy.
Now, after accidentally finding a few grand old bivalves left, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission plans to build an artificial oyster reef in the Lynnhaven River in hope of restoring stocks there.
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