March 28: Connecticut’s Oyster Industry Comes Out Of Its Shell

March 28: Connecticut’s Oyster Industry Comes Out Of Its Shell

https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mar-28-TodayinCTHist-Oyster.mp3   By the time the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries first assigned a resident scientist to study Connecticut’s shellfish industry in the 1920s, Connecticut residents had been harvesting oysters and clams from the waters of Long Island Sound for hundreds of years. Created in the late 19th century, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries’ mission was to study and …