These Bivalves Tell a Story: Murder Point Oysters
Murder Point is the largest oyster farm in Alabama. Others in the state include Point au Pins — also on Sandy Bay — Navy Cove and Massacre Island. Louisiana has fewer farmed oysters: Southern Belles, Grand Isle and Caminada Bay. Zirlott suspects Louisiana has been slower to embrace oyster farming because unlike in Alabama, harvesting wild oysters from reefs remains a viable business. …