Seafood

The New Jersey seafood industry is beginning to return to normal after screeching to a halt during Hurricane Sandy. The state opened shellfish beds in the Delaware Bay Monday morning, and fishing operations based in North Jersey have largely resumed production.

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Not only is now the best time of year for oysters—it's also the best moment in modern memory. North America is in the midst of an oyster renaissance the likes of which has not been seen since the Gilded Age, when your average Joe could pop into a corner joint in New York or San Francisco and pay 6 cents to slurp as many as he could stomach. …

Fishermen here welcome the federal government’s decision to help fund a Lobster Council of Canada project that will enable consumers to trace the Canadian lobster on their plate right back to the fisherman who landed it. …

More than 100 nonprofit organizations and government entities will share almost $44 million in BP funds to promote Gulf Coast tourism and the seafood industries impacted by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the court-appointed oil-spill claims administrator said. …

The commercial season for Dungeness crab opens Thursday for the Central Coast, with the prospects of crabs that are loaded with meat, but fishermen are expecting fewer of them than in the past two years, when records were set. …