oysters

Louisiana is exploring off-bottom oyster harvesting as more than just a marketing strategy. In its final environmental impact statement for the controversial Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lists the state’s strong interest in off-bottom oyster cultivation as a way to help build resiliency into an industry under threat from sediment diversions.

At least 15 people reported illness after eating oysters at several New Orleans restaurants.

As its land washes away, Grand Bayou Indian Village has partnered with the Coalition for Coastal Louisiana to build an oyster reef. The tribe wants to slow land loss and learn to live with water at the same time.

Gulf South oyster reefs are fading because of the changing climate. Alabama hopes to reverse this by using recycled shells to grow oyster gardens.

For the past six years, the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe has battled to stop its historic earthen Indian mounds from slipping into the sea, looking to the power of oyster shells to protect them. Now, they’ve expanded that effort.

Bags of oyster shells once slurped on at New Orleans restaurants clinked against each other as volunteers tossed them onto trucks, then boats, on Friday, set to return to the water to help save an eroding Indian mound of Plaquemines Parish’s west bank.

Louisiana fishers might soon see federal disaster relief more than two years after the unprecedented flooding of 2019 — now considered the longest flood on record — devastated much of the commercial industry.

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The commercial fishing industry on the Gulf Coast has seen two major disasters in the last 15 years: Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. Now, some…