The closing was real tough because that part of the river is where many of the oysters are. Our biggest population of oysters is up there.

These are the highest flows that we've seen in the Carrot River system since '72, '74, and '79. We're closing in on some of those high flows.

Our biggest problem is getting across the Hudson River.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.