Seafood

Three years after being pummeled by Hurricane Ike and a year after the nation’s worst oil spill left it spinning, Texas’ seafood industry was hoping for a rebound. Instead, it’s being slammed by another, naturally occurring, intruder the red tide. …

Days after the opening of oyster season, mature populations of the bivalve mollusk seem most robust in the state’s southern waterways, from Sneads Ferry to Stump Sound, said officials with the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. …

As the last days of the season wind down, the Oregon fleet has hauled in 25,517 fish so far this year. At an average price of $5.77 per pound, that represents close to $1.9 million in revenue for the entire coast. That’s actually less money than the fleet earned last year, when the season was still restricted. …

The Natural Resources Defense Council study, just published in the online journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that because of outdated assessment methods and assumptions, the Food and Drug Administration’s standard for certain carbon compounds in seafood is off by 10,000 times. …

Lately, Louisiana residents have worried that their lunchtime oyster and shrimp poboys, or sandwiches, are torpedoing the weekly budget. After a series of calamities in recent years, Louisiana shellfish is expensive and won't become cheaper anytime soon, industry members say. …