In a special report for the Orlando Sentinel, Kevin Spears interviews FSUCML’s Dr. Sandra Brooke and Dr. Felicia Coleman, amongst others, as he assesses the many contributing factors threatening the survival of oyster populations in the Apalachicola Bay and Cedar Key areas. Looking back on Apalachicola’s history, he paints a jarring picture of the Bay today, now merely a shadow of its former self as the “Oyster Capital of the World.”