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Into cape cod's buzzard's bay. >> what happened is the animals were impacted. i say they weren't killed immediately. it took time for the animals to die. probably two or three days. >> reporter: george hanson remembers the disaster clearly and has studied it impact for decades. >> reporter: what was it like in the weeks following the spill? >> after, most everything in this area was killed. we say 90% mortality. it wasn't 100% because some of the animals will survive. >> reporter: the spill killed scores of fish and lobster. damaging clam beds. they spent weeks raking file from area beaches. s...

Out of balance. the fishing industry is putting it in focus turning the problematic ray into a delicacy. we have the story. >> reporter: this is a company, a family seafood business. been here 92 years. >> this boat just came in this morning. we're unloading the product. they're grading the fish by size and quality. we package them up. ship them all over the country. beginning in the middle of may we start seeing a large influx of the chesapeake rays, and they are devastating the clam beds and the oyster beds leer in the chesapeake bay. right now they are catching them as bicamp and many times...