Their journey from the Grand Isle lab to a New Orleans restaurant is typical for farmed Louisiana oysters. Unlike traditional ...

Farm-raised oysters are prized by chefs for uniformity and a clean taste, plus they're always in season. Tour the Florida ...

was a pioneer in the off-bottom oyster industry. The fourth-generation oysterman turned from traditional dredging to cage farming in response to changing environmental factors. He was the first ...

As Louisiana pushes forward with the nearly $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project to restore eroded wetlands, oyster harvesters are bracing for major industry disruption, Louisiana ...

Farming oysters has always been a gamble ... which eliminated seeding ground for traditional farmers. Then, there are sediment diversions, a coastal restoration approach that mimics the natural ...

In this region, oyster farming has typically been limited to traditional methods, which can be inaccurate. Spreading young oysters and dredging for adults is risky, as farmers don’t know the ...

Florida’s oyster population has declined during the past 15 years because of overharvest, hurricanes, changing environmental conditions and more. In particular, Apalachicola Bay has seen a ...

In traditional oyster farms, oysters grow in cages that ... (Courtesy Keith Butterfield) Flip farming, which started in New Zealand, strings floating cages on 300 feet or so of cable.