"In the U.S. Senate, Florida and Alabama are pressuring Georgia to join a water-sharing compact for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system. But it could be too late downstream for scores of families who earned their livelihoods from the dying Apalachicola River.

The sun hasn’t been up long, but a quarter of a mile off East Point, veteran oysterman Eugene King and his wife Dalene  are already close to their four-bag limit.

Dalene sits on the open deck of a 20-foot skiff, methodically sorting shells and hacking rhythmically at the biggest ones with a worn knife. Eugene leans on the long wooden handles of his oyster tongs and pauses to talk about the old days."

Jim Ash reports for WFSU May 20, 2016. [2]