This is their natural growing area. It goes back in the history books. And I believe that if the problems in the river are corrected, the oysters will come back. Minute floating plants distributed throughout a water body that can bloom and cause fish kills. The process by which dissolved nutrients rich in nitrogen fertilize a water body, increase algae growth and strip the water of dissolved oxygen.
Eutrophication leads to a decline in the number of life forms in a water body.
A certain amount of nitrogen is needed in water bodies as food for plants, but an excess can cause uncontrolled algal blooms. Charles Maxim sits along the Agawam River at Olde Carr Landing on a wooden skiff handmade by his father for oystering. Tony Williams of the Coalition for Buzzards Bay, reads information from one of the tests performed on the Agawam River. Mr. Williams demonstrates how the water is tested. The Coalition for Buzzards Bay trains volunteers to test water from the Agawam and Wareham rivers to help monitor theit health.