More than a decade after the once-iconic oyster began to fade in Apalachicola Bay — and five years after harvesting was shuttered completely — the storied oyster beds will open beginning Jan. 1.

The controversial reopening of Apalachicola Bay will test whether its once-sustainable local food system is still possible.

Virginia’s oyster harvest grew 24 percent last year to the highest level in almost three decades, Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office announced Tuesday. Over the past 11 years, the oyster harvest in ...

Captain Richard Bosarge steers his 42-foot boat, the Royster, to the Henderson Point reefs near Pass Christian. It’s a small city 65 miles east of New Orleans, on the Gulf of Mexico. Bosarge and his ...

The Apalachicola Bay reopened for commercial and recreational oyster harvesting on Wednesday for the first time in five years ...

The bay, which once supplied more than 90 percent of Florida’s oysters, has been on life support for nearly a decade.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WALA) - The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources says it will open certain areas of public oyster bottoms for weekday harvest beginning on Monday morning.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - The Apalachicola Bay is reopening for recreational and commercial oyster harvesting to kick off ...

Amid a significant global decline in wild oysters, a limited oyster harvest season is underway in Texas. State officials have been monitoring reefs across the state and closing access to reefs without ...

The state’s oyster harvesting season will open up with limited harvesting areas on Friday after a season of severe storms battered an already struggling industry. Only 10 of the 28 public oyster ...

In less than two weeks, harvesters can head to razor-sharp reefs to pluck up Lowcountry delicacies. South Carolina’s coastal waters will open to recreational harvesters looking to collect oysters and ...

Alabama will close the books Tuesday on its worst wild oyster season since 2017. The Marine Resources Division of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources recently announced that ...