TX State Closures Killing Livelihoods, Oyster Harvesters Say

More than 100 oyster harvesters from Galveston County and across Texas gathered recently outside the Texas Parks & Wildlife office in Dickinson in effort to convince the state to reopen the bays and save their jobs.

Environment for the Second Time in a Few Weeks, Maryland Officials Close Oyster Harvesting in St. Mary’s For Sewage Overflow

For the second time in less than a month, state environmental regulators shut down shellfish harvesting near St. George Island in St. Mary’s County after a sewage spill.

Oyster Harvesting to be Banned on These Four New Reefs East of Mississippi River

February 9, 2021 HALLE PARKER, Nola.com

To increase the number of oysters spawning on public water bottoms, Louisiana plans to forbid harvesting on four artificial reefs east of the Mississippi River in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes.