GALVESTON, Texas – In a deal that defies explanation, half the oyster beds of Galveston Bay, representing a harvest deep into the millions have been leased to a single seafood company for the nominal cost of just $36,633 dollars.
"I think this is very unjust, very unfair. This is the biggest land theft since we stole Texas from Mexico," said Michael Ivic, owner of Misho's Oysters, a business which stands to be a big loser if the deal stands.
The bargain oyster monopoly was quietly awarded by the little know Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District, a state sanctioned governmental agency created 70 years ago to build a never completed barge channel from the Gulf Coast to Dallas.
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