"Grrrr! Give me that oyster!" "I've had just about enough of you, toadfish. That's my oyster." Pictured here is Virginia oyster farmer Cam Chalmers, distracted by a tenacious fish as he lifts cages brimming with fat oysters out of the Lynnhaven River near Virginia Beach. I went out onto the river with Cam yesterday to get a sense of why aquaculture is succeeding in the Lynnhaven River and across Virginia, where the number of farmed oysters has risen ten fold over the last five years. One thing that is encouraging about the Lynnhaven, in particular, is that bacterial pollution in...

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