Florida State University has received $8 million to study how to revive the Apalachicola Bay.
The 10-year project, dubbed the Apalachicola Bay Systems Initiative, will be housed at FSU’s Coastal and Marine Laboratory and will work to rehabilitate the community’s oyster industry.
Sandra Brooke, the lab’s scientific director, said that research will be an important first step to bringing life back to the crippled industry.
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Because of a dwindling oyster population, a Florida agency voted unanimously Wednesday to shut down oyster harvesting in Apalachicola Bay through the end of 2025, dealing a blow to an area that historically produced 90% of the state’s oysters and 10% of the nation’s. …
The jobs lost in the Apalachicola Bay’s shuttered oyster industry won’t be easy to replace. But green shoots are sprouting in the form of two new industries about 23 miles away. …
Due to water wars with neighboring Georgia and overfishing of the bay, the waves of success in the industry became rough, recently hitting a crash that will cease fishing in Apalachicola Bay until 2025. …
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