For Sustainable Oyster Harvesting, Look to Native Americans’ Historical Practices
For Sustainable Oyster Harvesting, Look to Native Americans’ Historical Practices Scott Hershberger Oysters once abounded in the estuaries along the eastern coast of the U.S. But overharvesting, pollution and disease have taken a devastating toll on a keystone species. Of the live eastern oyster reefs that existed in Georgia in 1889, for example, only 8…