Agreed Phat, Chesapeake bay used to be the largest oyster
producing area in the world.
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/american_oyster.htm
But because of farm and domestic run off,
it has been cut to almost nothing on a world scale
and the fish are getting pfiesteria.
Item 4 notes that it is coming from known water qulity problems in estuaries.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/cmse/science/pfiesteria.html
In all, man (evreyone) is self destructive.