Drakes Bay Oyster Company must evacuate Drakes Estero and harvest its final bivalves by midnight on Dec. 31, 2014, according to a settlement reached last Tuesday between the oyster farm and the federal government and approved by a federal court this week.
Though the end has never been more clearly in sight for Drakes Bay, farm owner Kevin Lunny and his family will soon have a new oyster business in Inverness that will employ many…