Season ends early to give baby oysters ‘best chance’

Season ends early to give baby oysters ‘best chance’

Barnes Wild Bluff Oysters staffer Roger Matahaere shucks hundreds of oysters for the hordes of Bluff Oyster Festival-goers earlier this year. PHOTO: ODT FILES Barnes Wild Bluff Oysters will wrap up its oyster season this Friday — nearly two months earlier than usual — in a move aimed at protecting millions of juvenile oysters discovered in Foveaux Strait.

Special delivery - 60K oysters: Babies incubating near Newburyport's harbormaster building

NEWBURYPORT — About 4 p.m. Thursday, a nondescript box was delivered by the United Parcel Service to a handful of people standing next to a large white container next to the city’s harbormaster’s building.