Texas Says Shucks, Let’s Give Oyster Growing a Try
Wild oyster populations are struggling in Texas waters, so state officials want to let people start growing the mollusks off the coast. …
Texas Oysters
Maroon-Colored, ‘Aggie Brand’ Oysters Coming to Texas Tables? Maybe
Researchers with the Texas A&M University System say they have created an entirely new and sustainable industry for the Texas coast after artificially spawning oysters in a lab for the first time in 27 years. …
Mariculture, Reef Restoration Offer Solutions to Texas’s Oyster Problem
Oysters do a lot for the Texas Coast – filter water, provide storm protection, sequester carbon and make for good eating, but the reefs are continuously disappearing. …
Texas Muscles in on Oyster Farming
Texas has a new industry. Oyster farming will be legal in Texas as of September 1 now that Gov. Greg Abbott has signed House Bill 1300 into law. The bill by Coastal Bend Rep. Todd Hunter (R-Corpus Christi), includes Texas in a growing industry that state law historically prohibited. Texas was the only coastal state in the United States that did not allow oyster farming. …
Texas Supreme Court Ruling Keeps Oysters Under State Control
A storm that brewed in Galveston Bay for the past four-years over the ownership of Texas oyster production rights has finally subsided. A Texas Supreme Court ruling and new legislation has effectively shuddered the Chamber-Liberty Counties Navigation District (CLCND) claim to lease submerged bottomland to Sustainable Texas Oyster Resource Management (STORM) for the purpose of growing oysters. …