HATTERAS -- For hundreds of years commercial and recreational fishermen have been taking some of creation's tastiest oysters out of the shallow waters of Pamlico Sound just inside the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

But after harvests plummeted due to overharvesting, declining water quality and a nasty parasite in the last third of the 20th century, folks like Todd Miller and Craig Hardy and a host of others have been trying to put them back.

Miller, executive director of the nonprofit N.C. Coastal Federation and Hardy, of the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, have been working with a coalition of groups including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, scientists at N.C. State University and others to restore the oyster reefs that once dotted Pamlico Sound and provided one of the richest troves of oysters on the East Coast.

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