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Eleven inch
oyster found
Hudson River
off Pier 40.
From the River Project Pier 40:
Giant oyster discovered in Hudson River
Park! This animal was given to River Project
staff last week by the hard-hat divers
rebuilding Pier 40 in Hudson River Park. It
is 22.5cm and very very heavy - too heavy to
weigh on our triple beam balance. (We’ll soon
weigh her).
The oyster, named Glorious Big, is alive and
well, and we will keep her (probably a she, as
they are protandrous hermaphrodites) in the
river in a cage. John Waldman (professor
at Queens College) estimates that Big is 14
years old.
This oyster is by far the largest oyster
recorded in the Harbor in modern times, and
outsizing the last record-holder, found at Pier
25 by the HRPT interns last year, which was
18.5cm. That one was itself a record, because
the largest one we had found before that was
11.8cm, and the largest Jim Lodge knew of, in
the Harbor per se, was about 15 cm.