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I wish I could make this a link so it would be easier for you but sadly, I can't. Go to www.visusldx.com/vibrio/vibriolnfo.jsp That should take you to the Dept. of Health and Human Services. The Center For Disease Control and Prevention. There you can read for ("R-months").

As you may remember, our discussion was about the reason for the old "R-month" thing about oysters that dates back to the 1930's and your "evidence" for this is something that the government health services put out during the 1980's....you are seriously out of synch. time-wise.

Your major point was that water temps were the culprit and mine was that run-off contamination was the bad guy.

In reality, almost all of the closures (to shell-fishing) in area waters were caused by flooding, run-offs (from heavy rains) and the associated decrease in salinity (big factor) and they happened during periods of cooler water temperautres (60's as opposed to 80's).

Please answer this simple question: If water temperatures being too high is the problem, then what is the temperature that is considered to be "too high" that you talk about?

Please don't try to divert the subject (too warm waters = cause of bacterial blooms, yes or no) with trivia that evades the point.

My original point was that the old "R-month" thing about oysters was based on lack of decent refrigeration on the boats harvesting oysters in the pre-60's and yours seems to be that the "R-month" ban in the 1940's and 1950's was, instead, based on a government report from the 1980's.....WOW..how did those fortune-tellers pull that one off?

Being an oyster salesman you would know more about run off contamination and when it occurred but the rest of your argument is seriously out of whack. You seem to be talking about of both sides of your mouth about this thing. I have heard about run off contamination but it never had anything to do with v.v. I seem to remember that the notice about v.v. that we received when we had the house on Galveston Bay that I spoke of here, was during a very hot summer when we had had no rain. This conversation has been very pointless for quite a while and I say we give it up. I will continue to avoid oysters in hot months and you can continue to sell them all year round.