Florida’s Oysters in Apalachicola, Cedar Key Face Climate Threats to Survival

Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel Seafood August 20, 2019

Climate change isn’t a primary suspect in the stunning extermination of Apalachicola Bay oysters, a calamity pegged to a variety of atrocities.

But rising sea levels, warming waters and more intense storms could conspire to ensure the bay remains a graveyard for oysters despite costly efforts to resurrect it and put the delicacies back on restaurant tables.

That prospect troubles scientists at Apalachicola Bay in Florida’s Panhandle and is a worry for one of the state’s last, though struggling, strongholds of oysters — an area of Gulf of Mexico waters surrounding the island community of Cedar Key.

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