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==Economy== Apalachicola is still the home port for a variety of seafood workers, including [[recreational fishing]] and [[shrimp]]ers. More than 90% of Florida's oyster production was harvested from Apalachicola Bay in past years. Today the oyster industry has completely collapsed due to pollution and lack of water flow in the Apalachicola River.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1164/circ1164.pdf|title=Water Quality in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404004807/https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1164/circ1164.pdf|archive-date=Apr 4, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2020/08/01/last-shot-florida-is-trying-to-save-the-apalachicola-oyster-fishery-by-shutting-it-down/|title='Last shot:' Florida is trying to save the Apalachicola oyster fishery by shutting it down}}</ref> Every year the town hosts the [[Florida Seafood Festival]]. The bay is well protected by [[St. Vincent Island (Florida)|St. Vincent Island]], Flag Island, Sand Island, [[St. George Island (Florida)|St. George Island]], and [[Cape St. George Island]]. [[File:Wea01364 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg|thumb|Post Office, Customs house, and weather bureau, {{circa}} 1935]] In 1979, [[Exxon]] relocated their experimental subsea production system from offshore [[Louisiana]] to a permitted [[artificial reef]] site off Apalachicola. This was the first effort to turn an [[oil platform]] into an artificial reef.<ref name=Dauterive2000>{{cite journal |author=Dauterive, Les |title=Rigs-to-Reefs policy, progress, and perspective. |journal=In: Hallock and French (Eds). Diving for Science ... 2000. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Scientific Diving Symposium |publisher=[[American Academy of Underwater Sciences]] |year=2000 |url=http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/8995 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415192940/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/8995 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=April 15, 2013 |access-date=2011-01-07}}</ref>
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