Farmers, guardians and lovers of the bay gathered last Saturday in Brant Beach for the second annual Shellabration: a salute to aquaculture and saltwater bivalve mollusks like the oyster, its renaissance well under way. Although flooding pushed the event back by a week, the community found its way to Bayview Park, where many an oyster was shucked and slurped.
Long Beach Township Mayor Joseph Mancini conceived the bayside celebration as a way to bring awareness to the local estuary, and to oyster…
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