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 ...

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.

Terrebonne Parish has been a backbone of oyster production in the state from the beginning. Terrebonne is one of the most southern of Louisiana's parishes bordering the Gulf of Mexico. The city of ...

Gulf Coast fishermen and seafood restaurants about what state and federal rules restaurants are required to follow when it comes to labeling seafood. In Louisiana, lawmakers just made changes ...

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 ...

An unassuming fishing village less than 40 minutes south of Lafayette, amid the fertile marshlands of south Louisiana, is one of the Gulf Coast's best destinations for fresh seafood, along with a ...