Long Island county may be declared ‘disaster area’ over oyster crisis: ‘Supply and demand’

Source: New York Post

Suffolk County may be declared a “disaster area” by the feds over this year’s dismal oyster crop. The move would allow the region’s devastated oyster farms to unlock low-interest emergency federal loans to cover millions of dollars in losses as 30% of Suffolk’s oyster haul was decimated by this winter’s historic wallop. Peter Stein, founder of Peeko Oysters in New Suffolk on the North Fork, has told The Post he “easily [lost] “north of a million oysters” this past winter.