Mississippi state marine officials expect the oyster industry could suffer extreme losses when record amounts of freshwater heading down the Mississippi River reach the Mississippi Sound.
Oysters will be hit hard because they're a stationary species; shrimp, finfish and crabs, which are mobile, are expected to be able to move ahead of freshwater entering the salty waters of the Sound, and the effect on the adults should be minimal, said Scott Gordon, director of the Shellfish Bureau, Office of Marine Fisheries in the Department of Marine Resources.
Gordon and other officials spoke Tuesday at a meeting in Biloxi.
"I fully expect to have 100 percent mortalities of the oysters in the western Mississippi Sound," Gordon said.
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