Since the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010, 4 billion to 8.3 billion subtidal oysters were estimated to be lost across the Gulf coast. Many states are struggling. Louisiana is the only state ...

Gulf oysters are coming into the market from Texas, Mississippi and Alabama as well as Louisiana, Voisin said, adding that most of the Louisiana ones are coming from the Calcasieu Lake area near ...

These waving grasses along the Gulf of Mexico underpin Louisiana’s seafood industry, the country’s second-largest behind Alaska. They are home to key infrastructure, like the pipes that carry ...

predicts this year's Louisiana oyster production will be 65 percent below average. “The demand for (Gulf) oysters is down nationally,” Voisin said. “We have local product here, but we’re ...

Bill Rodman from Louisiana Public Broadcasting reports on their findings. And finally tonight: testing oysters from the Gulf Coast. That's being done by Louisiana's Department of Health and ...

At Auburn, he was charged with finding out if growing caged oysters in the nutrient-rich waters of the Gulf Coast would work. Walton, who teamed up with John Supan at Louisiana State University ...

Then back in New Orleans we sample dishes featuring the premium hand-picked Gulf oysters - Oysters with Bayou Verde Mignonette and Fried Oyster Salad. Louisiana Coastal Cooking is available to ...

These fine commodities are oysters, grown and harvested just off Louisiana’s coastline in a different way ... are marketed as precious gems of the Gulf Coast. “You create this craze for a certain item ...

These Acadiana chefs are at the top of their games, and each come from very different backgrounds and culinary traditions.

The reason for this is simple: Louisiana regularly leads the nation in commercially harvested oyster landings, even as the industry navigates environmental challenges affecting the Gulf of Mexico.

and then in 2008 the oysters started coming back strong, and then we had the BP spill.” That oil spill, from the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, coated the Louisiana coast ...