Long-Term Trends in Oyster Development

Long-term trends in oyster development – on the order of 80,000 years – are discussed in part of this week's edition of Big Picture Science (link).  It's the first segment and only about 16 minutes long, which makes it convenient to just click and listen at your computer, no downloading needed.

The take-away is that production is enhanced by limiting the harvest of large oysters.  This is a complete U-turn from the current laws which forbid the harvesting of undersize oysters.

Amazing what insights can be gained by carefully observing nature.  Sometimes things that seem completely, well, wrong turn out to be right when given a closer look.