Larry Simns, president of the Maryland Watermen’s Association, spoke with The Examiner about the proposal to introduce nonnative Asian oysters into the Chesapeake Bay to help restore the dwindling oyster population.

What do you think of the proposal?

That’s going to be a political battle. Virginia already has [nonnative oysters] in the water, but they have the nonreproducing oysters. Maryland doesn’t have it. They’ve experimented with it some in the universities. …

It’s more political than scientific.