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Oysters love organic pollution. Pipe some sewage into a bit of shallow sea with a rocky seafloor and in a matter of months you'll have a billion oysters. The

• bobthepanda 3y ago
  The problem was that until recent decades, New York harbor was so full of pollution it was overwhelming the oysters. (19 million people's worth of sewage and runoff is a lot.) A couple of large investments into waste treatment plants and now it is slowly getting back on its feet.