A Port Sulphur man racked up his fifth citation for harvesting oysters from a polluted area of Plaquemines Parish, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Monday. Wildlife agents were ...

Once Captain Bosarge’s boat, the Royster, reached the reef, he lowered an oyster dredge into the blue-green water. It’s a harvesting tool that looks like a hollow pyramid with a net attached ...

Farming oysters has always been a gamble, said Peter Vujnovich, a third-generation on-bottom harvester based in Port Sulphur. Oyster farmers can lose big after a storm, he said. “Mostly you try to ...

The farm began harvesting oysters full-time in the ... As we shucked and chatted, the boat cruised through "oyster village," where the shellfish-processing shacks — houses where everything ...

located a short boat ride from where the Solomons’ farm now sits. The hatchery was meant to seed, literally, the start of Georgia’s oyster farming industry. In 2018, the McIntoshes used larvae ...

There’s still time to harvest a few wild oysters in Alabama waters ... for private anglers and state licensed commercial party boats will be approximately 570,000 pounds.” ...

When the oyster harvest season began Nov. 1 ... which is like a metal rake that gets pulled behind the oyster boat, and that rake essentially just scrapes across the top of the oyster reef ...

As for harvesting oysters in Georgia in the hot summer months ... known as mariculture zones, are all 20-minute boat rides from the nearest marinas or commercial dock facilities.

With nowhere to keep their boats, would-be oyster growers can't get new farms ... but the problem is growing more pronounced, he said. He pointed to the example of several growers in Ninigret ...