. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. been isolated incidents of MSX — a parasite that typically thrives in cooler waters north of North Carolina. A combination of factors has forced the closing of many oyster beds. Of million acres of North Carolina salt water suitable for shellfishing, more than 56,000 acres of shellfish-growing waters are permanently closed, according to a DMF report. This represents an increase of about 380 acres since 1998. Most normally open areas from Carteret County southward also experience temporary closures dur
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. been isolated incidents of MSX — a parasite that typically thrives in cooler waters north of North Carolina. A combination of factors has forced the closing of many oyster beds. Of million acres of North Carolina salt water suitable for shellfishing, more than 56,000 acres of shellfish-growing waters are permanently closed, according to a DMF report. This represents an increase of about 380 acres since 1998. Most normally open areas from Carteret County southward also experience temporary closures during excessive rains. They are reopened for shellfishing once water samplings indicate bacteria levels are safe. Outside Gene and Lillie Oglesby's Mill Creek home on the Newport River, the state has closed a large man-made oyster rock dubbed "Shell Road" because of the large number of oyster shells. "I have eaten many an oyster from Shell Road," says LiJlie Oglesby. "Now the whole river is polluted from Newport to Lawton ; Oglesby's daughter, Elaine Crittenston, vividly remembers the day when the state closed one of her dad's prime oyster gardens. "My dad had tended the oyster garden in the area that was closed," she says. "He had nowhere to go to get clean oysters. I remember seeing tears in my dad's ; Not too long after that, Gene Oglesby retired from oystering. "It got to the place where there was nothing out there," he says. "You would work all day and would have done good if you caught a ; To provide more oysters, the state initiated an Oyster Relay Program. Fishers are paid to bring shellfish from polluted waters back into clean waters. There the oysters purify themselves before being harvested the next season. Leaseholders also are allowed to move these oysters to their beds at no cost. From April to mid-May, the Swartzenbergs and Rices load up their boat with small cluster oysters fro
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