Those bivalves were now swimming in a heavenly sea of cream, bacon and calvados.

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Human trumped the oyster and the bivalves suffocated in the newly dredged, silty base of the harbor.

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Living near arctic waters, its bivalves clam up for four-to-six months each year, making the oyster's muscles bigger and meat sweeter.

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