Before oyster disease hit the Nanticoke, a shucking house by the harbor was full of life and the shells that came from the factory went right back into the river.
Just like today's aquaculture, the shells went onto leases which watermen cared for and harvested from.
That was more than 60 years ago, and as the once packed harbor faded that shell stayed on the bottom, waiting and growing.
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