“The World’s Mine Oyster Tarball”
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Because the oysters are in decreasing supply:
The piles of oysters shucked by Shores & Ruark Seafood in Urbanna have shrunk by as much as 60 percent. And L.D. Amory & Co., a seafood processor on the Hampton waterfront, trucked 35 bushels of oysters last week to a Chicago buyer that normally gets 50.
Seafood operations up and down the Virginia coast hook a large part of their business to the fishing industry in the Gulf. Many have suffered a drop in sales since the BP oil spill led to the shutdown of large fishing areas along the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
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