In his Upper West Side office, Mark Kurlansky, author of The Big Oyster, a chronicle of the rise and fall of the bivalve in New York, is couched by a hotch potch of model ships, statuettes of jumpingfish, an atlas, piles of novels, foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias and loose papers.
While it was still early in the season to be jumping to conclusions, the Gulf coast native fears the migratory paths of fish went haywire after the oil spill.