About 300 fewer oyster
harvesting licenses were sold this year than last.
The Department of Agriculture sold about
1267 licenses this year – down from over 1560 in 2013.
The year before that the state sold 1686
licenses.
The highest number of licenses ever sold
was in 2010 – the year of the BP oil spill – when 1893 licenses were purchased.
And while there were nearly 1300 oyster
licenses sold this year, that doesn’t mean that there are that many oystermen
actively working.
Many local people buy the 100 dollar
licenses every year as insurance against future unemployment.
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