MiFarm Oysters Inc. employee Caitlin Conner stands on an aquaculture boat while looking for a submerged oyster cage during a harvest in Fleets Bay off the Chesapeake Bay near White Stone, Virginia, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. In July, Governor Terry McAuliffe stated “Virginia has become the oyster capital of the East Coast” with the oyster harvest in Virginia increasing from 23,000 bushels in 2001 to over 500,000 bushels in 2013.