The tangled saga of Drakes Bay Oyster Co. comes to an end as the Lunny family leaves Drake's Estero
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Los Angeles Times] By Robin Abcarian - December 12, 2014
It's the end of the line for Drake's Bay Oyster Co.
On Dec. 31, after a long battle with the National Park Service, the California Coastal Commission, the Department of the Interior and wilderness advocates, owner Kevin Lunny and his family will vacate the starkly beautiful Drake's Estero, a 2,500-acre estuary where some of the tastiest oysters on the West Coast have been farmed for more than half a century.
To Lunny supporters, the bad guy was the government, scheming to take away a precious local mariculture resource.
To the farm's opponents, the Lunnys became the villains. Founding members of Marin County's sustainable food movement, they were trashed as recalcitrant, water-polluting moochers who would exploit (and ruin) one of Marin County's most beautiful seascapes.
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