It has been so, off and on, for more than two thousand years. A curious archaeological artifact, an enormous heap of oyster shells, defines the upper river’s west bank just south of Great Salt Bay.

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But today, just one percent of the native oyster population found in the bay before the 1880s remains, due to pollution, disease and overharvesting -- leaving a mammoth task for environmentalists.