Source: WUNC, 7/11/22


Kalle Simpson, a graduate research assistant at North Carolina State University, sorts the dead oysters from the living. Oyster farming is a large and growing industry in North Carolina. Commercial landing data from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality tell the story of an industry on the rise; farms grew from producing $500,000 worth of oysters in a single year to $5 million since 1994. But something — or some combination of things — is killing Carolina oysters.

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