Effort to restore NY Harbor's oysters faces problem: They keep dying

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Rosemary Misdary
WNYC News | Jul 15, 2024

“The population of oysters [in NYC] is functionally extinct. There are some pockets here and there, but overall there's no larval source,” said Meredith Comi, coastal resilience and restoration practitioner for the Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University. “We have to do everything from scratch.”

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