PHOTOS: Oyster farm dispute roils Marin County
Drakes Bay Oyster Co. oyster farmer Manuel Manzo stacks oysters on a barge after being pulled in from a rack where they are farmed in the middle of Drakes Estero in the Point Reyes National Seashore. The submerged oysters are grown on “strings” and hang from racks which float in Drakes Estero. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Drakes Bay Oyster Co. oyster farmers pull in “strings” of oysters from a rack that floats in the middle of Drakes Estero in the Point Reyes National Seashore. The oysters are then stacked on a small barge and will eventually be transported to the Drakes Bay Oyster Company for separation and cleaning. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Drakes Bay Oyster Co. employees Lorena Pablo, center, and Guadalupe Arreaga, left, break up clusters of oysters at the farm in the Point Reyes National Seashore. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Drakes Bay Oyster Co. farmer Jorge Mata carries strings of oysters while walking up a plankway at the oyster farm in the Point Reyes National Seashore. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Kevin Lunny, owner of Drakes Bay Oyster Co., right, looks down from a barge as his sister Ginny Cummings looks over oyster sticks that have been harvested at the oyster farm in the Point Reyes National Seashore. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Drakes Bay Oyster Co. farmers Rubin Robledo, from left, Renato Jimenez, Giovanni Jemenez, Manuel Manzo and Ramon Gomez, head back to land after farming oysters in Drakes Estero in the Point Reyes National Seashore. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Cows graze on some of the hundreds of acres of farmland in the Point Reyes National Seashore. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A Black-tailed buck makes his way along a bluff near the Point Reyes Lighthouse in the Point Reyes National Seashore. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
