PENSACOLA, Fla. -- State scientists will head to the Florida Panhandle this week to check on East Bay oyster beds where oystermen are reporting a die-off.


Oyster season opened Oct. 1. Oystermen have reported pulling up dead oysters from beds that had been filled with large, healthy oysters at the end of the last harvest season on June 30.


"We're finding very few alive," Pasco Gibson, a main supplier of the East Bay oysters, told the Pensacola News Journal (http://on.pnj.com/t1Ziy7). "This time of the year, we should be catching 500 to 1,000 pounds per boat a day. We're not even catching a hundred pounds."


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