PASS CHRISTIAN — 2024 marked the return of oyster season on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for the first time in six years. For fishermen like Patrick Parkinson, this season marks a return to a way ...

These days oysters are good year-round because the vast majority are farm raised oysters that are super healthy, even in the ...

But that proposed change has not been formally adopted. Before the 2024-25 oyster season was opened on Oct. 7, state conservation officials provided a cautiously optimistic forecast. Their 2024 ...

MDMR’s Chief Scientific Officer Rick Burris said this year is the first oyster season since the opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway in 2019, which decimated the oyster population in the ...

But after 2012, it's literally been impossible. The oyster season is about to end. Two months ago, the Oystermen were out on the bay before dawn icicles hanging from the bows of their boats.

Massachusetts oyster farmers often pit their harvest in the winter to protect them against ice damage, but climate change is ...