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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 19 > Well-bred Pacific oysters aren’t invincible

Well-bred Pacific oysters aren’t invincible

By Kenneth R. Weiss / The Bulletin
July 19, 2008

QUILCENE, Wash. — For decades, the unwritten motto at shellfish hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest was “Better oysters through science.”

Scientists mated the heartiest, fastest-growing stock to produce plumper, sweeter oysters for slurping raw on the half-shell or....

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