Oyster'in up trouble.

If you love oysters like me, this'll make you sad.

A recently published study in BioScience asserts that oysters are "functionally extinct".

"Oyster reefs are at less than 10 percent of their prior abundance in most bays (70 percent) and ecoregions (63 percent)," said the study.
"They are functionally extinct -- in that they lack any significant ecosystem role and remain at less than one percent of prior abundances in many bays (37 percent) and ecoregions (28 percent) -- particularly in North America, Australia and Europe."

I love oysters, buy my kinda love -- the cracker/horseradish kind -- probably isn't helping.

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