Oyster farming will resume in certain parts of southern Massachusetts today after the state reopened oyster beds that had been closed because of high levels of bacteria.
"It means everything," said Paul Hagan of Duxbury, the farm manager for Boston-based Pangea Shellfish. "Right now, I'm sitting in the middle of Duxbury Bay with my crew and we're just switching gears totally. ... We get to go back to business."
Hagan got a call out of the blue yesterday afternoon announcing the ban was lifted after about a month of uncertainty over how long oystering would be off-limits.
"They've kept us in the dark with this whole process since the day we got shut down," said Hagan. "It was frustrating, but at the same time there was nothing we could do about it. You just have to abide by the rules."
The reopened beds are in Duxbury, Edgartown, Kingston, Marshfield and Plymouth. They were closed in late August after state officials linked oysters in those locations to cases of Vibrio — a bacterial pathogen that causes cramps, nausea and "watery diarrhea," according to a press release from the state Department of Public Health.
State officials decided to reopen the beds after no new human cases were reported and after water temperatures began to cool, making it harder for the bacteria to develop.
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